Feminist Fight Club: An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace
Written by Jessica Bennett
Narrated by Jessica Bennett and Bahni Turpin
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About this audiobook
Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work—a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.
It was a fight club—but without the fighting and without the men. Every month, the women would huddle in a friend’s apartment to share sexist job frustrations and trade tips for how best to tackle them. Once upon a time, you might have called them a consciousness-raising group. But the problems of today’s working world are more subtle, less pronounced, harder to identify—and harder to prove—than those of their foremothers. These women weren’t just there to vent. They needed battle tactics. And so the fight club was born.
Hard-hitting and entertaining, Feminist Fight Club blends personal stories with research, statistics, and no-bullsh*t expert advice. Bennett offers a new vocabulary for the sexist workplace archetypes women encounter everyday—such as the Manterrupter who talks over female colleagues in meetings or the Himitator who appropriates their ideas—and provides practical hacks for navigating other gender landmines in today’s working world. With Feminist Mad Libs, a Negotiation Cheat Sheet, and fascinating historical research, Feminist Fight Club tackles both the external (sexist) and internal (self-sabotaging) behaviors that plague women in the workplace—as well as the system that perpetuates them.
Jessica Bennett
Jessica Bennett is an award-winning journalist and critic. She writes for the New York Times, where she covers gender issues, culture, and has a monthly column on millennials and language. A former staff writer at Newsweek, Jessica is also a contributing editor for LeanIn.org, the nonprofit founded by Sheryl Sandberg, where she is the cofounder and curator of the Lean In Collection, an initiative to change how women are portrayed in stock photography. Yes, she's in a real-life feminist fight club.
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Reviews for Feminist Fight Club
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Over the course of hearing this I would go, yes!! Exactly! It’s like you’re reading my mind! So important and relevant I encourage everyone to read or listen.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Practical. Empowering. Funny. A must-read for any woman or man entering the workforce.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This is the kind of book I would have liked to have received as a graduation gift or just before getting my first job. It has a lot of really good information, examples, tactics, etc. that could really help women (particularly younger women?) navigate sexism in the workplace.
Even now, as an older woman working in a progressive office, I learned a few good tips (ex: negotiating salaries or tactics for supporting people who are interrupted in meetings). - Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not always truly actionable and clearly from the (occasionally recognized) bias of being a white able bodied woman in the workplace, but well laid out and very satisfying at points (and very useful advice-wise in others). There are some great nuggets here, and even when I questioned the value I was still very entertained.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is a great combination of call-to-action, education (with endnotes!), recognition of injustice, intersectionality, workbook, and stockpile of feminist puns :) There's something here for everyone from the woman who still thinks pink-collar is about fashion, to the "nice guy", to the columnists at Ms. Magazine. I highly recommend this excellent, accessible book :)
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fantastic book, highly recommend it for every working woman. Helpful with a bit of humor. Practical suggestions on getting your job done in the work place. Worth every penny.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5every so often you need a feminist self-help kick in the pants to remember how fucked up things still really are...case in point, the recent presidential debates
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is a great, cheeky guide to not getting shit on at work. There's some really valuable advice - for all genders - amid the snark.