Tag Archives: Generational Analysis
More magazine features “The New Feminists”
TweetHere’s what I love about the new MORE Magazine article on “The New Feminists”: Their self-professed motivation was to halt the seemingly endless lament, “There are no young feminists,” and show some of them, listen to them, and highlight their work. Feministing is represented heartily (go Perez! go Jess! go me!). There is actually quite [...]
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Responding to Susan Faludi: On mentoring and “being seen”
TweetSusan Faludi’s recent piece in Harper’s on intergenerational conflict in the feminist movement has already provoked thoughtful rebuttals—both here on Feministing and across the feminist blogosphere. Like others, I found her stereotyping of young feminists as matricidal, materialistic, and frivolous to be insulting and unfair; choosing Courtney Martin, of all people, to represent this young [...]
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Electras talk back: Jennifer Baumgardner
Tweet We’re appreciative to Jennifer Baumgardner for adding her two cents to end our week-long series in response to Susan Faludi’s recent Harper’s article. In the late 1990s, Phyllis Chesler wrote a book called Letters to a Young Feminist. It really rankled me at the time, in part because I was part of very large [...]
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Electras talk back: responses to Susan Faludi’s Harper’s piece
Tweet Last week, Harper’s published an essay by Susan Faludi about intergenerational feminist tension, in which she examines how the “mother-daughter divide” damages the feminist movement. The way she sees it, younger women have “fallen into the 1920s trap of employing a commercialized ersatz ‘liberation’ to undermine the political mobilization of their mothers.” Amanda Marcotte, [...]
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Not Oprah’s Book Club: Traveling with Pomegranates