Ebook {Epub PDF} She Wants It: Desire Power and Toppling the Patriarchy by Jill Soloway

Andrea Long Chu. November 5, As a lightweight behind-the-scenes look at a critically acclaimed television series, Jill Soloway’s new memoir She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy is just south of worth purchasing at the airport. As a book about desire, power, or toppling the patriarchy, it is incompetent, defensive, and astonishingly clueless.  · Her new book, She Wants It: Desire, Power, and—yes—Toppling the Patriarchy, is full of that kind of urgency, but what’s so compelling about it is that she applies that urgency to many Author: Chloe Schama. She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy moves with urgent rhythms, wild candor, and razor-edged humor to chart Jill’s evolution from straight, married mother of two to identifying as queer and nonbinary. This intense and revelatory metamorphosis challenges the status quo and reflects the shifting power dynamics that continue to shape our collective worldview/5(70).

But also, by eventually coming out as queer and non-binary, the lines on Jill's own gender map began to be erased. This is the story of that journey. She Wants It charts Jill's intense and revelatory experience, growing from straight, divorced, mother of two - to non-binary genderqueer director, show creator, and activist. She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy (Jill Soloway) The Echo Wife (Sarah Gailey) Lost in the Never Woods (Aiden Thomas) Meet Cute Diary (Emery Lee) Thirty Names of Night (Zeyn Joukhadar) We Are Watching Eliza Bright (A.E. Osworth). 'A funny and brutally honest book about what it means to be a woman and what it takes to be a creator, She Wants It is deeply personal but always universal in its unapologetic recounting of a life lived and raw talent shared. Good. Detailed. Honest. Needed' - Amy Poehler One morning, half-awake in a shame spiral about what a shitty mother you are because you're letting your kid watch so much.

She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy. By Jill Soloway. New Price: $ Later Soloway’s memoir, She Wants It. Jill Soloway. Crown Archetype, $27 hardcover (p) ISBN She Wants It: Desire, Power, and Toppling the Patriarchy moves with urgent rhythms, wild candor, and razor-edged humor to chart Jill’s evolution from straight, married mother of two to identifying as queer and nonbinary. This intense and revelatory metamorphosis challenges the status quo and reflects the shifting power dynamics that continue to shape our collective worldview.