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#capitalismwilleatitself: what the ‘Fearless Girl’ statue and Harvey Weinstein have in common – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #capitalismwilleatitself, #misogyny, #patriarchy, #quickhits, #sexism / October 20, 2017Faux-feminism, just lean-in, you do have it all, gals, there’s nothing to see here, oh just stoppit now, etc. (emphasis added, as always). Popular feminism and popular misogyny Together, these two ...
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“The problem lies in what this neoliberal feminism skims over…”
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #gender, #capitalismwilleatitself, #patriarchy, #quickhits / August 5, 2017The problem lies in what this neoliberal feminism skims over, and the behaviours it promotes as a result of these omissions. It focuses on equality before the law, with both Women Who Work and Lean In...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminism for the 99% – @jacobinmag
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / March 2, 2017Clinton’s feminism was intensely individual: one could never stop hearing a silent “it’s my turn” in every public speech. Deeply neoliberal, her feminism was hopelessly attached to a political world t...
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#vivelafeminism: ‘We need to be braver’ — women challenge ‘gender identity’ and the silencing of feminist discourse – @feministcurrent
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / October 3, 2016Women who challenge discourse around “gender identity” have been largely isolated on the front lines for the past decade. Liberal feminists and progressives have chosen identity politics over feminism...
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#vivelafeminism: “Gross-out feminism” works by normalising women through focusing on their bodies – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / September 30, 2016Vaginas are so hot right now. If that sentence shocks you, then you’ve been out of the cultural loop. Thanks to a new wave of television and autobiographies by some very funny women, female privates h...
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#vivelafeminism: A vogue for self-exposure has reduced feminism to naked navel-gazing @rafiazakaria
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / July 12, 2016“The current wave of confessional writing from media-savvy young women walks an unsteady line between extending the politics of the personal and unit-shifting titillation.” @rafiazakaria on theguardi...
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#vivelafeminism: ‘Marketplace Feminism’ and the Commodification of Empowerment – Susan J. Douglas
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / July 12, 2016“This feel-good, hip feminism is about style, attitudes and words, Zeisler argues, not about confronting “deeply entrenched forms of inequality.”” Susan J. Douglas on inthesetimes.com: Feminism seem...
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#vivelafeminism: Reclaiming femininity, crippling feminism (by @feministcurrent)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / January 5, 2016Fast-forward to the so-called feminism of today, which does not concern itself so much with women’s liberation as did the feminism of females now too old to take seriously. We’ve worked out a thrillin...
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#vivelafeminism: On “choice” feminism (on @feministcurrent)
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #quickhits / December 21, 2015Liberal feminists stop debate by crying “choice” when radical feminists unpack the context and impacts of choices — especially choices that reinforce male supremacy. This usually happens in conversati...
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#vivelafeminism: The oversimplification of feminism, and how it’s destroying us
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / July 9, 2015Some very good points, well made here. By frothydragon on aroomofourown. 2011. Sat in Gatwick airport, I found myself reading a quote from Caitlin Moran’s How To Be A Woman, in which Moran described ...
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#vivelafeminism: Feminists don’t care if you like hot pink, eat salads or shave your crotch
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 24, 2015Women around the world will be treated to such an extraordinary feat of feminism in 2016 that they’ll scarcely know what to do with it. No, I’m not talking about the first female president of the Unit...
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#vivelafeminism: On ‘corporate feminism’ and the appropriation of the women’s movement
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 14, 2015On Monday, Lisa Wade wrote, for Sociological Images, that Playboy (you know, the multi-million dollar porn empire) has been shopping around for writers who can bring some feminist cred to the magazine...
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#vivelafeminism: No, feminism is not about choice
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / May 3, 2015Feminism is back in fashion. As the push to claim the “f-word” has intensified, public figures, corporations and much of the mainstream media have propelled a largely unchallenging version of feminism...
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#vivelafeminism: The divide isn’t between ‘sex negative’ and ‘sex positive’ feminists — it’s between liberal and radical feminism
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / March 27, 2015The divides are more accurately described as existing between liberal feminist and radical feminist ideology. Liberal feminism is takes an individualistic perspective on women’s liberation. So the pr...
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