And just for
that hour, they see through the big lie of liberal
feminism: that you as an individual woman can liberate
yourself by being good enough, savvy enough, enlightened
enough (and of course, by dressing for success).
Said it - Featured Article: Beyond Multiple Choice by Rebecca Whisnant - March/April 2001 - 0 views
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To hear some people tell it, young women today are just so over all those boring, second-wave, "victim feminist" issues like rape, harassment, and battering: they've been there, done that, and are chomping at the bit for new, exciting, post-modern analyses. Have radical feminists become bitter, obsolete old curmudgeons, sitting on the campus quad and railing pointlessly at the carefree, post-feminist, non-victim young women passing by?
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More importantly, it is monumentally naive to think that most students already "get" basic feminist analysis. They're not "over it"; they're not even within shouting distance of it. Young women in most areas of the country wouldn't know a "riot grrrl" if they fell over one, let alone an analysis of rape as a weapon of patriarchy.
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