Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN: 1580055613
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Full Frontal Feminism is a smart and relatable guide to the issues that matter to today’s young women. This edition includes a new foreword by Valenti, reflecting upon what’s happened in the seven years since Full Frontal Feminism was originally published. With new openers from Valenti in every chapter, the book covers a range of topics, including pop culture, health, reproductive rights, violence, education, relationships, and more.
Chapters include:
You’re a Hardcore Feminist. I Swear.
Feminists Do It Better (and Other Sex Tips)
Pop Culture Gone Wild
The Blame (and Shame) Game
If These Uterine Walls Could Talk
Material World
My Big Fat Unnecessary Wedding and Other Dating Diseases
“Real” Women Have Babies
I Promise I Won’t Say “Herstory”
Boys Do Cry
Beauty Cult
Sex and the City Voters, My Ass
A Quick Academic Aside
Get to It
Since its original publication, Full Frontal Feminism has reassured readers—yeah, you're feminists, and that's actually pretty cool.
desired is a really understandable thing. Who doesn’t want to be wanted? The problem is who defines “hot”—and therefore desirability. Hint: It’s not women. Unattainable beauty standards for women aren’t a new thing. Magazines, TV shows, and movies have been shoving a certain kind of woman down our throats for decades. White, skinny waist, big boobs, long legs, full lips, great hair—a conglomeration of body parts put together to create the “perfect” woman we’re all supposed to be. And if we’re
anti-choice, anti-sex sect. In reality, having a baby is actually more dangerous to your health than having an abortion. But that hasn’t stopped anti-choicers from spreading misinformation and even trying to get legislation passed that would require telling women who want abortions that they’re increasing their chance of getting breast cancer. Can you say “scare tactic”? POST-ABORTION SYNDROME Yet another fake term. It’s not recognized by the scientific or medical communities. The idea is
their lives and their families, the sooner we start valuing motherhood again. 9 I PROMISE I WON’T SAY “HERSTORY” The history of feminism in the United States is generally thought of in an extremely limited way: Women got the vote, then some women burned their bras. Then it died ’cause women were equal. Done and done. Exciting stuff, huh? Even the more complex version that’s taught in women’s organizations and classes often leaves out the racist and classist background of the movement.
my friend Bill that morning—who was also attending the lunch—if he thought the outfit was appropriate. Thumbs up. So you can imagine my surprise when, mere days after the event, certain websites and blogs started to comment about the way I looked in a group photo that was taken at the end of the meeting. Some commenters on websites remarked that I looked hot; some said I was ugly. Many made quips about my being an “intern.” Yeah, in reference to Monica Lewinsky. I guess having dark hair and
Feminism Dead?” Time magazine, June 29, 1998. 2 Lawrence Summers is the former president of Harvard University. At a conference about women and minorities in science and engineering while he was still president, Summers theorized that one of the reasons for the lower number of women in the math and science fields was that women don’t have the same “natural” or “innate” ability as men. 3 Christine John, a first-year teacher at the Village Adventist Elementary School in Berrien Springs, Michigan,