Feminist Fight Club

An Office Survival Manual for a Sexist Workplace

By: Jessica Bennett

Narrated by: Bahni Turpin, Jessica Bennett

Part manual, part manifesto, a humorous yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work—a pocketbook Lean In for the Buzzfeed generation that provides real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.

It was a fight club—but without the fighting and without the men. Every month, the women would huddle in a friend’s apartment to share sexist job frustrations and trade tips for how best to tackle them. Once upon a time, you might have called them a consciousness-raising group. But the problems of today’s working world are more subtle, less pronounced, harder to identify—and harder to prove—than those of their foremothers. These women weren’t just there to vent. They needed battle tactics. And so the fight club was born.

Hard-hitting and entertaining, Feminist Fight Club blends personal stories with research, statistics, and no-bullsh*t expert advice. Bennett offers a new vocabulary for the sexist workplace archetypes women encounter everyday—such as the Manterrupter who talks over female colleagues in meetings or the Himitator who appropriates their ideas—and provides practical hacks for navigating other gender landmines in today’s working world. With Feminist Mad Libs, a Negotiation Cheat Sheet, and fascinating historical research, Feminist Fight Club tackles both the external (sexist) and internal (self-sabotaging) behaviors that plague women in the workplace—as well as the system that perpetuates them.

So empowering!!!

Loved this book! Plan to listen to it again!!! I could totally relate! So empowering!

Every person needs to read this book!

I laughed, I cried, and I laughed some more. Jessica Bennett does such a great job explaining the environments of working women today and how to tackle the things that get in our way!

Meh

While I enjoyed the topic, this particular book came off very aggressive and anti-men. It overall had a very negative tone, and focused heavily on maintaining a victim mindset. Because of that, I didn't come out feeling particularly empowered and just left a bad taste in my mouth.

They intend well

It's clear they are really trying to sell this brand of being edgy, and it sometimes gets in the way of their message. It was good, but being angry and identifying the BS is not really enough. Unless you're an activist, it is more helpful to know how to navigate the biased world we live in rather than to straight up fight it.

My feminist fire has been reignited!

I loved this book! It was educations, captivating, hilarious, and inspiring. Bahni Turpin is a fantastic narrator and Jessica Bennett knows how to make a girl feel understood and empowered.

As a recent college graduate, working in my first office job, I found this book to be so helpful in educating myself on the kind of work environment I want to be a part of and how I can conduct myself to my full potential. I highly recommend this book to anyone, working or not, male or female.

I'm definitely going to buy the hard copy to keep on hand :)