Jamie

Useful scholarship, but a poor audio experience

Revisado: 01-15-18

Divided We Stand is timely, well-researched, and makes an excellent resource for feminist scholars. It does not, however, make for a good audiobook. Spruill's narrative is plodding and repetitive, making listening a chore. This is an academic book, published by an academic press, that really has no business being turned into an audiobook. Date and acronym heavy, it does not flow like the narrative histories that are usually given the audiobook treatment. Narrator Dina Pearlman does an admirable job with unforgiving prose, but her game performance is hampered by the material and unacceptably poor sound quality. It sounds as if she was forced to read this in a tin shed, basically, as there is a strange reverberation and hollowness to the recording. It's an important book and Spruill's overarching argument about the ERA debates of the 1970s being a root cause for ongoing national political division is both compelling and perceptive, but I'd recommend bypassing the audiobook and sticking to the printed page for anyone who is interested.

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