Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her small-town Texas high school that thinks the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes and hallway harassment. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules.
Viv’s mom was a punk rock Riot Grrrl in the ’90s, so now Viv takes a page from her mother’s past and creates a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She’s just blowing off steam, but other girls respond. Pretty soon Viv is forging friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, and she realizes that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution.
Book Review:
I decided to read this book because it was part of the Zoella Book Club for the year. Although, it wasn't profound, it was good. It gave good insight to the minds of teenage girls who are experiecing the world of mysogony and who are coming into their own feminism. They are paving their own path for the fight.
I thought Vivian's character development was vital to the story. Had she not moved forward personally, she never would have been able to inspire the Moxie movement or keep it going. She never would have been able to establish the comraderie between her classmates, etc. It was great to read, I won't lie, but I did wish that Mathieu portrayed Vivian and the other characters in a more profound and intelligent manner. Like many other YA novels, she made them seem less than real teenagers are.
Pages: 330 Rate: 4/5
Favorite Quote:
“it occurs to me that this is what it means to be a feminist. Not a humanist or an equalist or whatever. But a feminist. It’s not a bad word. After today it might be my favorite word. Because really all it is is girls supporting each other and wanting to be treated like human beings in a world that’s always finding ways to tell them they’re not.”
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