Why I Am Not A Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto

· Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Jessa Crispin
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Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism… and a bracing manifesto for revolution.
Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve to be treated as such? That women deserve all the same rights and liberties bestowed upon men? If so, then you are a feminist . . . or so the feminists keep insisting. But somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, ineffectual pose that barely challenges the status quo. In this bracing, fiercely intelligent manifesto, Jessa Crispin demands more.

Why I Am Not A Feminist is a radical, fearless call for revolution. It accuses the feminist movement of obliviousness, irrelevance, and cowardice—and demands nothing less than the total dismantling of a system of oppression.

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2.7
23 reviews
Riott
April 3, 2022
She rightly calls out the rich, racist, lazy & entitled feminists who’ve lost touch with their less advantaged sisters. Middle-class American women turned their backs on those less fortunate not only because of selfishness & I-got-mine-ism, but also because life on the materialist hamster wheel's so utterly grueling & exhausting that it leaves u neither the time nor the energy required in order to comprehend the worthier cause, let alone contribute. She argues compassion & empathy are needed.
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Sara Gould ASW
March 25, 2021
It’s pretty disgusting how a person can decide to agree that women are not equal. Because feminism is defined as a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. Because I am as capable as a man in anything I choose. Your anti progressive 1950s stance is dying out.
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MrClick105
November 8, 2022
As it simply reveals …..alotta females love misery and rather not be contempt with peace I see alotta tryna compare themselves to men instead of being okay with the natural role of a woman that is your problem as a woman if you live life trying to prove me too I can do it too
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About the author

Jessa Crispin is the editor and founder of the online magazines Bookslut — one of America’s very first book blogs — and the literary journal Spolia. She is the author of The Dead Ladies Project and The Creative Tarot, and has written for the New York TimesGuardian, Washington PostLos Angeles Review of Books, NPR.org, Chicago Sun-Times, and Architect Magazine, among other publications. She has lived in Lincoln, Kansas; Austin, Texas; Dublin, Ireland; Chicago, Illinois; Berlin, Germany; and elsewhere, and currently resides in New York City.

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