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 here to show them how to punch their way out. A rallying manifesto; start swinging. Library Journal
Rabble-rousing, impolitic, and eloquent, this book models the latitudes and freedoms it wants us all-us women, us feminists, us humans - to embody. Enough with the safety mongering, says Crispin - Let's break stuff! Let's get messy! Let's make feminism radical again. Laura Kipnis, Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation
