Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
By:
Jessica Valenti
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Feminism isn't dead. It just isn't very cool anymore. Enter Full Frontal Feminism, a book that embodies the forward-looking messages that author Jessica Valenti propagates on her popular website, Feministing.com.
Covering a range of topics, including pop culture, health, reproductive rights, violence, education, relationships, and more, Valenti provides young women a primer on why feminism matters.
Valenti knows better than anyone that young women need a smart-ass book that deals with real-life issues in a style they can relate to. No rehashing the same old issues. No belaboring where today's young women have gone wrong. Feminism should be something young women feel comfortable with, something they can own. Full Frontal Feminism is sending out the message to readers — yeah, you're feminists, and that's actually pretty frigging cool.
Publisher: Seal Press
Customer Review: 4 out of 5 recommend for every 18 yr old - This was a book I should have read four years ago. If you are trying to make your way through the jungle and tangle of relationships and sex without coming out the other side as a prude or too promiscuous, this is a book you should read (because guess what--you're neither.) If you've ever wondered what a feminist looks like, or what one actually believes, or whether they are all angry, this is a book you should read. If you've ever worried that you were too fat, too stupid, or too ugly, and that you couldn't find any virtues to make up for those, you should read this book. (Because guess what--you weren't.) And if you have ever wondered (or worried) whether you are actually a feminist, read this book. (Because guess what, if you believe in equal rights, chances are, you are.)
Customer Review: 1 out of 5 You may also want to read - If you are looking for the conspiracy theory behind feminism, you may also want to read 'Cruel Hoax' by Henry Makow, PhD.
'Cruel Hoax : Feminism and the new world order' is a wake up call for women who blindly follow feminism and everybody else who think otherwise.
Customer Review: 1 out of 5 Deluded and Weak - Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3PHVVFLI38VW7 I am no friend of radical feminism but this is a particularly weak effort in my opinion.
Customer Review: 1 out of 5 Disappointing. - I'm a frequent reader of Feministing, not because I find her right or convincing about what she believes in, but because her claims are so outrageous that I find it amusing. I read the book in hopes that she would better explain herself and her beliefs, but alas, I found it to be simply an EXTREMELY long version of one of her Feministing posts.
Would not reccommend.
Customer Review: 1 out of 5 American feminism comes to a screeching halt at the Rio Grande River - Full Frontal Foreign Women: A Young Man's Guide to Why American White Middle Class Feminism is Irrelevant
I am a young American man who made his mint in NYC and then moved to Central America 3 years ago. In the world outside of her failing feminist experiment, here are some facts for Valenti to brood over:
American women have a bad publicity problem, and rightly so.
Feminism does not matter, modern or otherwise. No need to define, redefine, remake, figure out, wonder about, or consider at all.
Whatever momentum your "movement" has, it comes to a screeching halt at the Rio Grande.
Folks around here never did see feminism as a threat or as powerful but merely as an annoyance while living in the U.S. and now, well, its just a source of humor. Plus you never have to concern yourselves with mens' rights activists in this brave new world; they simply don't exist...imagine that.
Yep, your speeches, books, articles only apply to a few middle class elitists; a mere plop in the bucket relative to the women on the entire planet. Here in the good ol' third world I and my fellow Americans (there are many here now, some with PFSD) are immersed in bevies of femininity and we do not respect or acknowledge or abide by the following:
Work life balance Repro rights Diversity IMBRA Marriage Broker Regulation Act Inclusion Stay at home moms Body image Political correctness Title IX Take your daughters to work Affirmative action Tahirih Justice Center Maternity leave Cultural Marxism Ms Foundation Third party childcare Paternity leave Linda Hirshman Male bashing Opt out myth Having it all Bonnie Erbe Pay equity Gloria Steinem Fish riding bicycles National Organization for Women Takes a village Mommy track Biological clock Gender Wage gap Gender role Career vs family Cultural Marxism (repeated) Political correctness (repeated) ...and blah blah, ecchh
Because WE DON'T HAVE TO!!
Third World Women The Manipulated Man
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