Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto

✍ Scribed by Crispin, Jessa

• Book ID: 110011516
• Publisher: Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 560 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781863959056

✦ Synopsis

Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve all the same rights as men? If so, then you are a feminist . . .
Or are you? Is it really that simple? Outspoken cultural critic Jessa Crispin says somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, ineffectual pose that barely challenges the status quo.
In this bracing, fiercely intelligent manifesto, she demands more: nothing less than the total dismantling of the system of oppression--and of what people currently think of as "feminism."
'The author's ferocious critique effectively reframes the terms of any serious discussion of feminism. You'll never trust a you-go-girl just-lean-in bromide again. Forget busting glass ceilings. Crispin has taken a wrecking ball to the whole structure.' --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
'Feminists have, in fact, become polite insiders, and Crispin is...