Hi there!
The 20th of June was the Summer Solstice, so it’s officially the start of summer! I spent this weekend catching up with friends and making more plans for summer activities.
Here’s my reading highlight:
Weyward by Emilia Hart
5 stars
June has been a pretty good reading month, with now one more 5 star read! This novel tugged at my heartstrings.
The story follows three generations of Wayward women dating back to 1619 and how they all used their powers to defend themselves, especially from violent men in their lives. The novel’s thesis is that ‘witching’ – to accuse a woman of being a witch is a type of gendered violence, as it was a blanket term that men used to assert power over women.
The novel did a great job of depicting the types of sexual discrimination women were facing during each time period of that respective generation. From being only seen as a walking uterus (and thus abused for not bearing children) during the 1600s to suffering at the hands of discriminatory male doctors who believed that mental illness resulted from having a female reproductive system and began diagnosing hysterectomy as treatment in the 1900s, and the risk and prevalence of stalking in today’s time.
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