Women vs feminism : why we all need liberating from the gender wars / by Joanna Williams, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Joanna, author.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Women--History--20th century.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 318 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bingley, United Kingdom : Emerald Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

pt. one. Women's lives today : Schooling for success ; Women at work ; The gender pay gap ; The motherhood penalty

pt. two. Private relationships, public concerns : Victors or victims? ; Sex and relationships ; The trouble with boys

pt. three. Feminism then and now : Not your grandmother's feminism ; The personal is political ; Being a woman ; Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record

ISBN:

9781787144750

1787144755

9781787149403

1787149404

OCLC:

1006479974