Finding Feminism

Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution

Author: Alison Dahl Crossley
ISBN: 9781479884094

The contemporary tactics of millennial feminists who are part of an active movement for social change.In 2014, after a young man murdered six students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then killed himself, the news provoked an eye-opening surge of feminist activism. Fueled by the wide circulation of the killer’s hateful manifesto and his desire to exact “revenge” upon young women, feminists online and offline around the world clamored for a halt to such acts of misogyny. Despite the widespread belief that feminism is out-of-style or dead, this mobilization of young women fighting against gender oppression was overwhelming. In Finding Feminism, Alison Dahl Crossley analyzes feminist activists at three different U.S. colleges, revealing that feminism is alive on campuses, but is complex, nuanced, and context-dependent. Young feminists are carrying the torch of the movement, despite a climate that is not always receptive to their claims. These feminists are engaged

Publisher: NYU Press
Publish Date: 2017-04-25

Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / General, Social Science / Gender Studies

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