Women vs Feminism
Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Date of Publication: 10 October 2017
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| ISBN13: | 9781787144767 |
| ISBN10: | 1787144763 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| No. of pages: | 336 pages |
| Size: | 216x138 mm |
| Weight: | 360 g |
| Language: | English |
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Short description:
Statistics tell us there has never been a better time to be a woman but feminists are quick to point out that women are still victims of everyday sexism. This title explores what life is like for women today. It?s time to ditch a feminism that appears remote from the concerns of most women and, worse, pitches men and women against each other.
Long description:
There?s never been a better time to be a woman. Thanks to those feminists who fought for liberation, young women today have freedom and opportunities their grandmothers could barely have imagined. Girls do better at school than boys and are more likely to go to university. As a result, women are taking more of the top jobs and the gender pay gap has all but disappeared. Yet rather than encouraging women to seize the new possibilities open to them, contemporary feminism tells them they are still oppressed.
The author critiques feminism, views it as demonizing men and degrading women by treating them as victims, and raises questions about the direction and purpose of feminism today. She argues that girls are doing better at school than boys, they are entering higher education in greater numbers than men, they are getting degrees in more subjects, and they have better employment prospects, while the gender pay gap has narrowed. She explores the impact of feminism on education; the experiences of women at work and problems with viewing the workplace through gender; the gender pay gap, its politicization, and problems with it; and why women are more likely to choose part-time work. She discusses the difference between women?s progress at school and work and the perception of their lives, particularly how the view of women as victims creates a focus on women as oppressed, arguing that this claim has little meaning today. She considers men?s and women?s private relationships and how feminism moved from celebrating sexual liberation to seeking to regulate sex and relationships by focusing on sexual harassment, pornography, and rape culture, removing women?s sexual agency; the consequences of problematizing and policing heterosexuality and masculinity; and the changing nature of campaigns for women?s rights from the 19th century through second-wave feminism in the 1970s, subsequent ideas about intersectionality and identity politics, and the consequences of the move toward identity politics for feminism and what it means to be a woman.
"refreshing and engaging" - Times Literary Supplement
Women vs Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars challenges this stance, unpicking the statistics from the horror stories to explore the reality of women?s lives. It argues that today?s feminism is obsessed with trivial issues ? skinny models, badly phrased jokes and misplaced compliments ? and focuses on the regulation of male behaviour, rather than female empowerment, pitching men and women against each other in a never-ending gender war that benefits no-one.
Feminism today does women no favours and it?s time we were all liberated from the gender wars.
The author critiques feminism, views it as demonizing men and degrading women by treating them as victims, and raises questions about the direction and purpose of feminism today. She argues that girls are doing better at school than boys, they are entering higher education in greater numbers than men, they are getting degrees in more subjects, and they have better employment prospects, while the gender pay gap has narrowed. She explores the impact of feminism on education; the experiences of women at work and problems with viewing the workplace through gender; the gender pay gap, its politicization, and problems with it; and why women are more likely to choose part-time work. She discusses the difference between women?s progress at school and work and the perception of their lives, particularly how the view of women as victims creates a focus on women as oppressed, arguing that this claim has little meaning today. She considers men?s and women?s private relationships and how feminism moved from celebrating sexual liberation to seeking to regulate sex and relationships by focusing on sexual harassment, pornography, and rape culture, removing women?s sexual agency; the consequences of problematizing and policing heterosexuality and masculinity; and the changing nature of campaigns for women?s rights from the 19th century through second-wave feminism in the 1970s, subsequent ideas about intersectionality and identity politics, and the consequences of the move toward identity politics for feminism and what it means to be a woman.
"refreshing and engaging" - Times Literary Supplement
Table of Contents:
Part One: Women?s Lives Today
Chapter 1, Schooling for Success
Chapter 2, Women at Work
Chapter 3, The Gender Pay Gap
Chapter 4, The Motherhood Penalty
Part Two: Private Relationships, Public Concerns
Chapter 5, Victors or Victims?
Chapter 6, Sex and Relationships
Chapter 7, The Trouble With Boys
Part Three: Feminism Then and Now
Chapter 8, Not Your Grandmother?s Feminism
Chapter 9, The Personal is Political
Chapter 10, Being a Woman
Conclusions, Do We Still Need Feminism?
