Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN: 1580055613
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Full Frontal Feminism is a smart and relatable guide to the issues that matter to today’s young women. This edition includes a new foreword by Valenti, reflecting upon what’s happened in the seven years since Full Frontal Feminism was originally published. With new openers from Valenti in every chapter, the book covers a range of topics, including pop culture, health, reproductive rights, violence, education, relationships, and more.
Chapters include:
You’re a Hardcore Feminist. I Swear.
Feminists Do It Better (and Other Sex Tips)
Pop Culture Gone Wild
The Blame (and Shame) Game
If These Uterine Walls Could Talk
Material World
My Big Fat Unnecessary Wedding and Other Dating Diseases
“Real” Women Have Babies
I Promise I Won’t Say “Herstory”
Boys Do Cry
Beauty Cult
Sex and the City Voters, My Ass
A Quick Academic Aside
Get to It
Since its original publication, Full Frontal Feminism has reassured readers—yeah, you're feminists, and that's actually pretty cool.
Anti-Porn: The Resurgence of Anti-Pornography Feminism
Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968–1980
Changing the Pattern: The Story of Emily Stowe (Stories of Canada, Book 1)
is a girl. Being a woman is the ultimate insult. Now tell me that’s not royally fucked up. Recognizing the screwed nature of this little exercise doesn’t necessarily make you a feminist. But it should. Most young women know that something is off. And even if we know that some things are sexist, we’re certainly not ready to say we’re feminists. It’s high time we get past the “I’m not a feminist, but...” stuff. You know what I’m talking about: “I’m not a feminist or anything, but it is total
to each other. What worries me is that young women are being taught that unless you have a Tiffany ring and a Vera Wang dress, your wedding and marriage are crap. And what happens to the women who get married and then find out that marriage is not all it’s cracked up to be? As we’ve already figured out, women are still—still!—doing the majority of housework even if they have full-time jobs. And marriage is still being positioned as the “natural” thing people (women, especially) should want to do.
their bras. That rumor started after women protesting the 1968. Miss America Pageant threw their bras in a trashcan. Fact is, women of color were fighting their own battles at the time and not getting nearly enough recognition. One speech that (thankfully) gets a lot of play is Sojourner Truth’s “Ain’t I a Woman?” delivered in 1851 at the Women’s Convention in Ohio. ❂ That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place
seriously into reproductive rights, poverty alleviation, the war, and plenty of other social justice issues. But when it comes to the media, the public face of feminism isn’t a young one. Neither is the face at the head of the table. I’ve worked for a bunch of feminist organizations, some national, one international. And in the last couple of years, I’ve gotten more and more involved in popular U.S. feminism. And as much as I love it (to death), it still has its fair share of problems. The one
because females generally become aroused less easily, they’re in a good position to help young men learn balance in relationships by keeping intimacy in perspective.7 The logic is laughable. Seems that girls don’t get horny, so it’s up to us to make sure that The Sex doesn’t happen. And if it does, well, you should have kept your legs closed, you big dummy. But really and truly, the following gem is my fave. It comes from an “educator” speaking at an abstinence conference last year: “Your
