/tags/reviews/ Recent content in Reviews on Clark Seanor Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sat, 15 Nov 2025 10:07:47 +0000 /posts/female-masculinities-and-the-gender-wars-by-finn-mackay/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 10:07:47 +0000 /posts/female-masculinities-and-the-gender-wars-by-finn-mackay/ Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex is about the relationship between butchness, transmasculinity, and the people who are against these forms of self-expression. It was published in 2021. Four years later, the political climate in the UK that it describes has materially changed, but the conflicts that Finn Mackay describes haven’t really. I think that it is as relevant now as it was when it was written: Mackay writes lucidly about the nature of the gender critical movement in a way that I feel is quite unique. /posts/body-problems-by-m-wolff/ Fri, 19 Sep 2025 19:16:23 +0100 /posts/body-problems-by-m-wolff/ I really liked Body Problems: What Intersex Priest Sally Gross Teaches Us About Embodiment, Justice, and Belonging by M. Wolff. I read it for the first time in early September, and I left a short review on StoryGraph at the time in part to record my immediate thoughts and in part because I thought that leaving a review might help other people to find the book. It was a sacrifice to the almighty algorithm. /posts/hatred-by-berit-brogaard/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:52:16 +0100 /posts/hatred-by-berit-brogaard/ Content note: in this review, I discuss transphobia, transmisogyny, suicide, racism, and sexual assault. In her 2020 book Hatred: Understanding our Most Dangerous Emotion, Berit Brogaard presents a complex but not comprehensive analysis of the emotion of hatred. The book argues for a number of different points, but not in a way that I find particularly compelling or convincing. Brogaard makes three core arguments: Hatred can come in dehumanising and critical forms, and the critical form of hatred should be fostered because it reinforces social norms while the dehumanising form of hatred should be avoided.