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why we all need liberating from the gender wars

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An edition of Women vs feminism (2017)

Women vs feminism

why we all need liberating from the gender wars

First edition.
  • 1 Want to read

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. 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. -- from back cover.

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Women vs Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars
2017, Emerald Publishing Limited
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Table of Contents

Part One: Women's lives today
1. Schooling for success
Girls are outperforming boys
A dramatic change
Underachieving boys
The most intelligent gender
What gets measured, counts
Gendered expectations
Overstating gender
Is girls' success worth celebrating?
Teaching values
Girls under pressure
Back to school
Conclusions
2. Women at work
More women are working
Women in the professions
Historical changes
Generational differences
Fewer men working
Narrative of sexism
Elite concerns
Quotas for women
Different women, different expectations
Sex segregation
A feminist etiquette
Personal choice
Conclusions
3. The gender pay gap
Women are earning more
Delaying motherhood
National economic changes
Pay gap obsession
A movable feast
The problem with averages
Like for like earnings
Part-time jobs and part-time wages
Gender does not determine earnings
Problematic solutions don't do women (or men) any favours
Conclusions
4. The motherhood penalty
Paying mothers less
The illusion of choice
Traditional roles
Changing families
New pressures on mothers
Relinquishing autonomy
Doing parenting
Disappearing women
Flexible working
Choosing motherhood
Conclusions
Part Two: Private relationships, public concerns
5. Victors or victims?
Desperately seeking disadvantage
Overlooking differences
Inflated claims
Personal stories
Internalized misogny
The attraction of victimhood
Women's mental health problems
Conclusions
6. Sex and relationships
Whatever happened to the sexual revolution?
Problematizing sex
Battered wife syndrome
Sexual harassment
Teaching victimhood
Regulating public life
Pornography
Child abuse
Rape culture
Rape myths
Campus sex panics
An expanding problem
Expanding definitions
Conclusions
7. The trouble with boys
Title IX
Teaching consent
Teaching mistrust
Generation virgin
Heterophobia
Toxic masculinity
Promoting feminine values
Competing claims for victimhood
Conclusions
Part Three: Feminism then and now
8. Not your grandmother's feminism
Naturally different
Women as slaves
Votes for some women
Morally superior women
Freedom to work
The public sphere
The Second World War
Second-wave feminism
Sexual equality
The limits of formal equality
Wages for housework
Blurring public and private
The patriarchy
Conclusions
9. The personal is political
Women in the academy
A male-dominated curriculum
Academic feminism
Feminism and post-modernism
Language constructs gender
Feminism divided
Intersectionality
The problem with intersectionality
Third-wave feminism
Backlash myths
A generational consciousness
Woman as object and subject
Fourth-wave feminism
The end of class politics
Conclusions
10. Being a woman
The female body
Discussing vaginas
Essential differences
The invention of gender
Feeling like a woman
Performing gender
Transwomen
New gender orthodoxies
Reproductive rights
More to life than this...
Conclusions
11. Conclusions
Do we still need feminism?
Life is different today
Feminism hsa changed too
Enforcing a feminist etiquette.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-305) and index.

Other Titles
Women versus feminism, Women v. feminism
Copyright Date
2017

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305.42
Library of Congress
HQ1155 .W55 2017, HQ1101-2030.7

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 318 pages
Number of pages
318

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26944891M
ISBN 10
1787144763
ISBN 13
9781787144767
LCCN
2017301508
OCLC/WorldCat
983308464

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