Travelling in the Wrong Direction
Lorna Finlayson: Popular Feminism, 4 July 2019
Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny
by Sarah Banet-Weiser.
Duke, 220 pp., £18.99, November 2018,978 1 4780 0291 8 Show More
by Sarah Banet-Weiser.
Duke, 220 pp., £18.99, November 2018,
Darkness Now Visible: Patriarchy’s Resurgence and Feminist Resistance
by Carol Gilligan and David Richards.
Cambridge, 162 pp., £21.99, August 2018,978 1 108 47065 0 Show More
by Carol Gilligan and David Richards.
Cambridge, 162 pp., £21.99, August 2018,
Feminism for the 99 Per Cent: A Manifesto
by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser.
Verso, 85 pp., £7.99, March 2019,978 1 78873 442 4 Show More
by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser.
Verso, 85 pp., £7.99, March 2019,
“... departments to pledge to improve the proportion of women in ‘leadership’ positions. As Sarah Banet-Weiser observes, the rhetoric of female ‘empowerment’ is now a standard marketing tool. Feminism hasn’t just acquired establishment approval, it has managed to become voguish. As Banet-Weiser puts it, we ... ”