Maybe you'll see some positives in it that I missed! There are a few sensible points in there, they're just buried and negated by everything else. I'd be really interested to hear your thoughts if you do read it. (You should at least take the quiz!)
I think the problem with books about feminism like this, that try to repackage feminism for a young audience, is that they almost invariably rely on sweeping clean previous feminist work, so that the diversity of the movement is lost (and also the ways in which they're continuing previous mistakes, such as the unthinking whiteness of it all), and it just reinforces the idea of dying feminism. Also, I am not that convinced that young women are more anti/ambivalent towards feminism than previous generations - it's never been that mainstream in the UK, at least. There is also the question of whether young women need books like this that separate them from other feminist audiences. I don't think I know anyone who started being a feminist because they read something like this. (Though that may be the circles I move in.)
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Date: 2009-07-18 12:55 pm (UTC)I think the problem with books about feminism like this, that try to repackage feminism for a young audience, is that they almost invariably rely on sweeping clean previous feminist work, so that the diversity of the movement is lost (and also the ways in which they're continuing previous mistakes, such as the unthinking whiteness of it all), and it just reinforces the idea of dying feminism. Also, I am not that convinced that young women are more anti/ambivalent towards feminism than previous generations - it's never been that mainstream in the UK, at least. There is also the question of whether young women need books like this that separate them from other feminist audiences. I don't think I know anyone who started being a feminist because they read something like this. (Though that may be the circles I move in.)