Back when I was a kid the word “feminista” would be thrown around in my house as if it were a venomous poison capable of the worst wrong doings, early on in my teenage years I came in contact with the mainstream definition of said word and ended up thinking to myself how could anyone not be a feminist.

 As someone who was constantly referred as “the feminist in the class” I still cannot believe how ignorant I was of the history, oppression, and bias on which the premises and the “popular definition” of feminism were built upon. I genuinely think that this book is a necessary reading for anyone who is interested not only in intersectional feminism but also in acquiring an ampler perception of the socialization of housework, the beginnings of the labor/socialist movements in the US, the social and political history of slavery in the USA and the history of the women’s movement (including the raw differences between white bourgeois feminism and colored feminism).

This short rambling is in no shape or form a complete or concrete review of this book, I personally have only read 2 other works by Angela Davis and do not think I am acquainted enough with her writing or with feminist theory to truly present in a written form the impact that this book has had on me. My final words are that this book has motivated me to finally delve into a more intense study of feminist literature and feminist theory and I have Angela Davis to thank for it.