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The Feminism Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

CONTENTS of The Feminism Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

THE BIRTH OF FEMINISM • 18TH–EARLY 19TH CENTURY

• Men are born free; Women are born slaves • Early British feminism
• Our body is the clothes of our soul • Early Scandinavian feminism
• Injured woman! Rise, assert thy right! • Collective action in the 18th century
• It is in your power to free yourselves • Enlightenment feminism
• I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves • Emancipation from domesticity
• We call on all women, whatever their rank • Working-class feminism
• I taught them the religion of God • Education for Islamic women
• Every path laid open to Woman as freely as to Man • Female autonomy in a male-dominated world

THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUAL RIGHTS • 1840–1944 – The Feminism Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

• When you sell your labour, you sell yourself • Unionization
• A mere instrument of production • Marxist feminism
• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal • The birth of the
• suffrage movement
• I have as much muscle as any man • Racial and gender equality
• A woman who contributes cannot be treated contemptuously • Marriage and work
• Marriage makes a mighty legal difference to women • Rights for married women
• I felt more determined than ever to become a physician • Better medical treatment for women
• People condone in man what is fiercely condemned in woman • Sexual double standards
• Church and state assumed divine right of man over woman • Institutions as oppressors
• All women languishing in family chains • Socialization of childcare
• Woman was the sun. Now she is a sickly moon • Feminism in Japan
• Take courage, join hands, stand beside us • Political equality in Britain
• We war against war • Women uniting for peace
• Let us have the rights we deserve • The global suffrage movement
• Birth control is the first step toward freedom • Birth control
• Men refuse to see the capabilities of women • Early Arab feminism
• There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind • Intellectual freedom
• Resolution lies in revolution • Anarcha-feminism

THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL • 1945–79 – The Feminism Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

• One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman • The roots of oppression
• Something is very wrong with the way American women are trying to live • The problem with no name
• “God’s plan” is often a front for men’s plans • Feminist theology
• Our own biology has not been properly analysed • Sexual pleasure
• I have begun to make a contribution • Feminist art
• No More Miss America! • Popularizing women’s liberation
• Our feelings will lead us to actions • Consciousness-raising
• An equalizer, a liberator • The Pill
• We are going all the way • Radical feminism
• Feminism will crack through the basic structures of society • Family structures
• Women have very little idea how much men hate them • Confronting misogyny
• Ms. authors translated a movement into a magazine • Modern feminist publishing
• Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still • Patriarchy as social control
• Uterus envy plagues the male unconscious • Uterus envy
• We are always their indispensable workforce • Wages for housework
• Health must be defined by us • Woman-centred healthcare
• There is no beginning to defiance in women • Writing women into history
• The liberty of woman is at stake • Achieving the right to legal abortion
• You’ve got to protest; you’ve got to strike • Women’s union organizing
• Scream quietly • Protection from domestic violence
• The male gaze projects its phantasy on to the female • The male gaze
• Rape is a conscious process of intimidation • Rape as abuse of power
• Womyn-born-womyn is a lived experience • Trans-exclusionary radical feminism
• Fat is a way of saying “no” to powerlessness • Fat positivity
• Women’s liberation, everyone’s liberation • Indian feminism
• Our voices have been neglected • Feminist theatre
• All feminists can and should be lesbians • Political lesbianism
• Woman must put herself into the text • Poststructuralism

THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE • 1980s

• The linguistic means of patriarchy • Language and patriarchy
• Heterosexuality has been forcibly imposed on women • Compulsory heterosexuality
• Pornography is the essential sexuality of male power • Antipornography feminism
• Women are guardians of the future • Ecofeminism
• “Woman” was the test, but not every woman seemed to qualify • Racism and class prejudice within feminism
• The military is the most obvious product of patriarchy • Women against nuclear weapons
• Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender • Black feminism and womanism
• The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house • Anger as an activist tool
• Half the population works for next to nothing • Gross domestic product
• White society stole our personhood • Anticolonialism
• A community of sisters in struggle • Postcolonial feminism
• Let us be the ancestors our descendants will thank • Indigenous feminism
• Women remain locked into dead-end jobs • Pink-collar feminism
• Women’s issues have been abandoned • Feminism in post-Mao China
• Forced marriage is a violation of human rights • Preventing forced marriage
• Behind every erotic condemnation there’s a burning hypocrite • Sex positivity
• Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life • Survivor, not victim
• Unearned privilege is permission to dominate • Privilege
• All systems of oppression are interlocking • Intersectionality
• We could be anyone and we are everywhere • Guerrilla protesting

A NEW WAVE EMERGES • 1990–2010 – The Feminism Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

• I am the Third Wave • Postfeminism and the third wave
• Gender is a set of repeated acts • Gender is performative
• Feminism and queer theory are branches of the same tree • Feminism and queer theory
• The beauty myth is prescribing behaviour, not appearance • The beauty myth
• All politics are reproductive politics • Reproductive justice
• Society thrives on dichotomy • Bisexuality
• The antifeminist backlash has been set off • Antifeminist backlash
• Girls can change the world for real • The Riot Grrrl movement
• Figures of women constructed by men • Rewriting ancient philosophy
• Theological language remains sexist and exclusive • Liberation theology
• Disability, like femaleness, is not inferiority • Disability feminism
• Women survivors hold families and countries together • Women in warzones
• A gender power control issue • Campaigning against female genital cutting
• Raunch culture is not progressive • Raunch culture
• Equality and justice are necessary and possible • Modern Islamic feminism
• A new type of feminism • Trans feminism

FIGHTING SEXISM IN THE MODERN DAY • 2010 ONWARDS

• Maybe the fourth wave is online • Bringing feminism online
• Feminism needs sex workers and sex workers need feminism • Supporting sex workers
• My clothes are not my consent • Ending victim blaming
• Femininity has become a brand • Anticapitalist feminism
• We should all be feminists • Universal feminism
• Not a men vs women issue • Sexism is everywhere
• We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back • Global education for girls
• No female leaders, just leaders • Leaning in
• When you expose a problem you pose a problem • The feminist killjoy
• Women are a community and our community is not safe • Men hurt women
• Equal pay is not yet equal • The pay gap
• Survivors are guilty until proven innocent • Fighting campus sexual assault
• Driving while female • The right to drive
• #MeToo • Sexual abuse awareness

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