From 8e40f699896c6dcb8e2e445cb1ebd3a8f431056c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ktyl Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 01:42:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] factory girls --- content/books/factory-girls.gmi | 8 ++++++++ content/books/index.gmi | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/books/factory-girls.gmi diff --git a/content/books/factory-girls.gmi b/content/books/factory-girls.gmi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7bd999d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/books/factory-girls.gmi @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +# Factory Girls +> Leslie T. Chang + +I enjoyed this book, it made real a world which I'd never contemplated the reality of before. Chang's perspective humanizes a group of people usually represented simplistically by Western media. Rather than desperate, poverty-stricken vagabonds one might first assume teenagers working in factories might be, she tells a story of enterprising youths who are trying to make their place in the world, in what is a very Western-style individualistic enterprise. + +* migrants' acquity shifts power balance with their elders +* factory english, pyramid schemes +* self-reinvention diff --git a/content/books/index.gmi b/content/books/index.gmi index 7756ca3..8a3cc97 100644 --- a/content/books/index.gmi +++ b/content/books/index.gmi @@ -2,12 +2,11 @@ These are formatted as links. Behind some of them is a synopsis/review/loose col # In progress -* Factory Girls * Constellation +* Dune # Next Up -* Dune * Rimworld * The First Men in the Moon * The Time Machine @@ -15,6 +14,7 @@ These are formatted as links. Behind some of them is a synopsis/review/loose col # 2023 +=> ./factory-girls.gmi Factory Girls => ./why-women-have-better-sex-under-socialism.gmi Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism => ./le-voyage-dhector-ou-la-recherche-de-bonheur.gmi Le Voyage d'Hector: ou la recherche de bonheur => ./how-not-to-be-wrong.gmi How To Not Be Wrong: The Hidden Maths of Everyday Life