We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
Andi Zeisleramazon.com
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
Though the “utopian” moment was never completely lost, increasingly, feminism has operated in a framework in which the system—its goals, its priorities, its productivity deals—is not questioned and sexual discrimination can appear as the malfunctioning of otherwise perfectible institutions.
Sandberg and those who followed in her wake became poster girls for a certain type of contemporary feminism, one that critics
And, perhaps more important, from a strategic point of view, in her 1993 afterword to Revolution from Within, Steinem asked the difficult question: what are self-help and Twelve-Step groups offering people that feminism, the Left, and the labor movement have failed to provide?