| Record Number |
19460 |
| ISBN |
9781946885012 (trade paper : alk. paper) |
| Location |
305.42 MCK |
| Author |
McKeon, Lauren (author.). |
| Title |
F-bomb : dispatches from the war on feminism / Lauren McKeon. |
| Published |
Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, Inc., [2018] |
| Collation |
270 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Content types |
text |
| Carrier type |
volume |
| Bibliography Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents Note |
Machine generated contents note: ONE.How feminism became today's dirtiest word -- 1.We've got a long way to go, baby: Confronting the dangerous myth that we've made it -- 2.Feminists eat their young: The fourth wave, a fractured sisterhood, and the cataclysmic divide between feminist generations -- 3.F-bomb generation: Empowerment, millennial women, and the "I'm not a feminist, but..." choir -- TWO.On the front lines of the new women-on-women gender wars -- 4.How a feMRA is made: In conversation with the leaders of today's rising women-led anti-feminist movement -- 5.The domestic wife: The problem with retro revival, the new motherhood, and the glamorization of pre-feminist gender roles -- 6.One at the top, five million at the bottom: How we sold ourselves the equal-opportunity lie and grew the violent push to keep women out of the workforce -- |
| Contents note continued: 7.It's your fault: How anti-feminists narrowed the definition of rape and revived the deadly, viral culture of slut shaming and victim blaming -- 8.Teen spirit: Clinic closures, access attacks, and the pro-woman rebranding of today's anti-abortion activists -- THREE.The future is feminist -- 9.Reason for hope: The young women and girls who are giving misogyny the middle finger -- 10.Defining the new feminism: How we can harness the discord and create a better feminism for the future. |
| Summary Note |
"Women are leading the fight against feminism and women’s rights. The question is, why? Women are leading the fight against feminism and women’s rights. The question is, why? From pop icons to working mothers, women are abandoning feminism in unprecedented numbers. Even scarier, they are also leading the charge to send it to its grave. Women head anti-feminist PR campaigns; they support anti-feminist politicians; they’re behind more than 70 lawsuits across North America to silence the victims of campus rape; they participated in Gamergate, the violent, vitriolic anti-women-in-technology movement; and they’re on the front lines of the fight to end reproductive rights. Everywhere we turn, there’s evidence anti-feminist bombs have exploded, sometimes detonated by the unlikeliest suspects. Between women who say they don’t need feminism and women who can’t agree on what feminism should be, the challenges of fighting for gender equality have never been greater. F-Bomb takes readers on a witty, insightful, and deeply fascinating journey into today’s anti-feminist universe as investigative journalist and feminist Lauren McKeon explores generational attitudes, debates over inclusiveness, and differing views on the intersection of race, class, and gender. She asks the uncomfortable question: If women aren’t connecting with feminism, what’s wrong with it? And she confronts the difficult truth: For gender equality to prevail, we first need to understand where feminism has gone wrong and where it can go from here. In a world where sexual harassment allegations regularly dominate news coverage and in which 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump, F-Bomb presents urgent and necessary discussion on women’s lives today."--Back cover. |
| Target Audience |
Collection code: W - Women |
| Subject |
Anti-feminism |
| Feminism |
| -- Feminism & Feminist Theory |
| -- Gender Studies |
