Not many misses for an anthology. A couple poorly thought-out two-pagers very early on, and then some hippy dippy new age stuff with an art style I really don't like looking at by one other artist. But lots of clever, human pieces. Barry Deutsch's piece was the jewel in the crown: a brutal tale of a boy at summer camp -- perfect art and a heartbreaking story.

This collection was fairly good, though I have to agree with the criticism in some of the other reviews here - chiefly that the content is not nearly intersectional enough. Still, it's great to see comic writers tackling issues like pregnancy, ageing and patriarchy.

For a graphic anthology that claims to be feminist, it does a poor job. The whole thing just screamed white feminism, the lack of POC and trans authors is telling.

Extremely uneven. For me the highlights were the pieces by Beth Lisick, Barry Deutsch, Sarah Oleksyk (in particular the artwork), Jen Wang and Andi Zeisler. So that's like five good ones out of something like thirty? With the exception of the above artists, this collection didn't feel fresh or nuanced at all. In at least one case the style was so cluttered and just... eye-watering that I couldn't focus on the page long enough to read it (Ron Regé Jr... no bubble letters, please). More important

I was hoping for some inspirational and empowering reads, and some of them were quite delightful; however, it was a convoluted mash-up at best. When an anthology is put together, especially in comic form, there needs to be some kind of flow with themes and ideas. I just couldn't see how many of the submitted work even fit the mold that I was expecting (but then again, maybe I didn't know what I should be expecting?). All in all, I was pretty disappointed with this.

As a feminist and a big fan of comics, I really wanted to like this book. However, in spite of a few really good submissions, the collection as a whole was disappointing. Some of the comics didn't make any sense, one of them I couldn't actually read, the order didn't make any sense and a lot of the comics struck me as decidedly unfeminist (like the one where the contributor complains that feminism is taking rights away from men). There were barely any mentions of women of colour or queer women,

My main complaint lies in the fact that these comics were drawn only in black and white. I don't enjoy comics half as much when color has been abandoned. I remember three women: MariNaomi, Kristina Collantes, and Angie Wang, who seem to be the only Asians represented. I did laugh at Beth Lisick's strip, a pleasant introduction to her work. I would have been doubly disappointed if Vanessa Davis and Gabrielle Bell had not been included. I am surprised at the fact so many older voices were not incl...

I was so, so excited about this book. Combining my two favourite things, of course I had to pick it up. However, it majorly lacked a lot of things, firstly, there was no representation of anything other than heterosexual white feminism...No woc, no trans women, no bisexuality, I think there was some queer issues sprinkled in there. The first half of the book was a riot. I was talking about redefining sexuality and spinsters and motherhood, but it got to a point where I realized there wasn't any

This book was awfully disappointing. It reads like a book by white cis women, for white cis women. It is perpetually binary, more often than not it's cissexist. I had hoped that perhaps the comics in this book might have addressed a well rounded and intersectional feminism, but with the exception of maybe two of the comics- and those only mildly- no such luck. I guess it was okay for what it was, though even that wasn't entirely clear; but it could have been so much more.

This was really really readable collection of short comics focussing on feminist themes. What is doesn’t focus on is intersectionality - no entries from WOC, no trans women, everyone was middle class and able bodied. The was a tiny sprinkling of queerness, but it really wasn’t much.

It's always hard to rate an anthology. This had more misses than hits, but there are a few really great comics. Most of them, unfortunately, fall flat before the conclusion, leaving me wanting more or asking more questions when the original one wasn't answered. That being said, it had a mix of all kids of art styles and types of story telling, and it's very likely you'll enjoy comics I didn't and vice versa.The comics I really enjoyed:"Am I a spinster yet?""How to make a man out of tin foil""Que...

Perspective. That's what we're so often missing in life. Seeing things from someone else's perspective is so key to understanding other people. Do you want to understand life in our culture from a woman's perspective? Read books likes this. Several women (and a few men) have come together and shared parts of their lives, parts of themselves, so we can all understand each other a little better. That's why books like this are so important. Buffy is referenced in the intro! Yay! I loved Manifes...

Received via Edelweiss in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.I expected a lot from this comic when I requested it. As a Tumblr user (Tumblrer?), I get great joy from some of the comics that often appear on my dash. Funny, moving, heartfelt, thought provoking. When I find a book that seemingly can compete with what I have to hunt for on the internet, I dive for it. It would appear I expected far too much from this book. This was my favorite piece in the book, and it was, I believe, the last

Bad title (ha ha), very uneven collection. I read it to see comic pieces from people I liked like Corrine Mucha and Jeffrey Brown, and I did like those pieces and a couple others, sure. The collection is dedicated to the "fourth wave" of feminism but if this is what the fourth wave is all about, well… okay, but it doesn't feel like anything particularly new. If it is about questioning earlier questions of feminism (the "ifs, ands and buts of feminism") through comics, okay… but it's not all that...

I picked it up last night, got to "both sexes" on the first page of the introduction, and put it back down again. Feminism's 4th (and further) wave has no room for gender binarist bullshit that makes whole swathes of people invisible. And then I read that the afterword is written by the horrifyingly abusive and oppressive Hugo Schwyzer? I'm not sure I'm ever going to pick this up again. Even though I backed this on Kickstarter, I might just end up donating it to a thrift store.

[2.5] not exactly my cup of tea

The title is quite misleading, this is not about feminism at all, the whole book is a big butt. I’m not going to argue about the drawings of which most are childish as you can’t argue about art. The stories though aren’t telling us, the readers anything, there is hardly any moral philosophy. Most of the strips are talking about society issues not feminist ones and some even try to copy the political cartoons they made during WWs. I can’t recommend to anyone this book, the amount of small gems yo...

This anthology contains everything that's amazing about indie comics: intelligence, heart, courage, rawness, and daring. I can't recommend it enough.

This is a compilation of illustrations that are intended to provoke thought about feminsim and its so called quest for 'equality'. Many illustrations were too vulgar in my opinon. The author's opening statement was the most appealing part of this book. The author makes a profound statment about so called feminism of today which I found is the real point of this book . For instace, fighting for equality should not be fighting for "extra rights" or taking away the rights of men. She continues by d...

A bit of a meh read, to be honest. I liked the variety in art styles and perspectives/points. I thought some of them veered into the border of SWERF/TERF territory - I dislike long screeds about how *~*~*motherhood*~*~*~ is a woman's magical power, since there are plenty of women, myself included, who for various reasons cannot or will not have children. I am no less a woman for it. The good news about this collection is that it is a collection - you're bound to find something you like. I did, b...