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"It's time to get inspired, get informed, and get out there. It's time to talk about feminism. In this book, 21 women write powerfully and candidly about what it means to be a feminist today. Covering topics ranging from financial independence to resting bitch face, and from workplace harassment to online trolls, this collection will answer your questions and validate your experiences. Poets, essayists, activists, actors, and professors explore race, class, and culture to paint an intersectional portrait of modern feminism. You'll hear from early feminist voices, seminal thinkers on gender, and contemporary advocates for women's rights. The pieces in this book are by turns refreshing, provocative, moving, and hilari...ous, as diverse as the women who wrote them. These authors prove that feminism is for everyone and every day. It demands to be discussed, and it calls for many voices. join the conversation."--Back cover.

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Published
San Francisco : Chronicle Books [2019]
Language
English
Physical Description
143 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN
9781452168333
  • Everything you always wanted to know about feminism but were afraid to ask / Rachel Fudge
  • 12 things about being a woman that women won't tell you / Caitlin Moran
  • The beauty bridge / Jia Tolentino
  • Ugly / Warsan Shire
  • A woman shopping / Anne Boyer
  • The lies we tell pregnant women / Sofia Jawed-Wessel
  • On pandering: how to write like a man / Claire Vaye Watkins
  • Harvey Weinstein is my monster too / Salma Hayek
  • When a woman deletes a man's comment online / Ijeoma Oluo
  • I'm not mad, that's just my RBF / Jessica Bennet
  • Not here to make friends / Roxane Gay
  • Types of women in romantic comedies who do not exist / Mindy Kaling
  • Observations on the state of degradation to which woman is reduced by various causes / Mary Wollstonecraft
  • I want a wife / Judy Brady
  • Gender, status, and feeling / Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • We have a problem with women supporting women / Chelsea Handler
  • Ain't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth
  • A story of a fuck off fund / Paulette Perhach
  • The transformation of silence into language and action / Audre Lorde
  • Feminism should not be an exclusive party / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Utopian thinking: how to build a truly feminist society / Naomi Alderman.
Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

This attractively bound anthology, which brings together previously published writings on feminism from well-known authors, actors, and activists, will appeal to both battle-worn feminists and those new to or curious about the cause. The collection begins with a useful guide and brief history by Rachel Fudge, former editor of Bitch magazine on the different "waves" of feminism. Then comes a sampling of writings dating as far back as the late 18th century and as recently as 2017. The various pieces, some humorous and some serious, most written recently, tackle such topics as domestic violence, assault, intersectionality, beauty bias, "resting bitch face," media stereotypes of "likable" women, financial independence, and equal rights. The authors included-among them Sojourner Truth, Audre Lorde, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Naomi Alderman, Roxane Gay, Caitlin Moran, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Mindy Kaling, Warsan Shire, and Jia Tolentino-are witty, smart, and unapologetic, and their works are united by their authors' commitment to gender equality and choosing their own paths forward. Readers will take away many useful messages, among them Ijeoma Oluo's "I don't have to fight each individual foot soldier of oppression; I can keep my focus on the big picture and my fight on where it could be most effective." This wide-ranging collection neatly encapsulates the priorities and touchstones of contemporary feminism. (Feb.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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