As a woman of the same vintage as Ms Renzetti but brought up in a very different household, I loved reading her perspective of the events we have both witnessed as women living in Canada. The essays have a wonderful strip of humour through them (always wished I had that gift in my writing) and cover some very important topics. I appreciate her discussion around intersectionality and the responsibility women like her and I have to the voices who have been silenced or marginalized in our lifetimes. Her "Four Lions" essay about her interviews with four influential women was inspiring and eye-opening. And if I hadn't been reading on a bus at the time I probably would have shouted "Amen" on every page in the essay, "You'll Pay For Those Breasts or The Costs of Being a Lady". Every man needs to read "The Way of the Harasser" (ideally they should read the whole book but I'll settle for that essay).

This is a clear clarion of change that's a must read for any feminist, especially ones who live in Canada. ( )

Renzetti launches into a series of personal essays on feminism, drawn from her experiences in her private and professional lives. The book has potential but it just doesn't quite hit the right note: it's not intimate enough to elicit any real emotion and it is not researched enough to make new, compelling arguments. Instead it lives in that middle muddle - outrage and indignation sputtering in no clear direction. The second half of the book is definitely better than the first, and the reader may just want to skip the midpoint. Overall, Renzetti definitely missed an opportunity to be more creative, more authentic or more incisive. ( )