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The Great Feminist Denial

Monica Dux and Zora Simic

The Great Feminist Denial puts an ailing feminist past to rest, and proposes a way forward that offers young women of today a new way of calling themselves feminists.

About this Title

Feminism has been a bad, bad girl.
All around us, feminism is getting the blame for women not having babies.
For the stress of working mothers. And for the rise of 'raunch culture'. It
seems that the final feminist destination is a sordid, selfish mess.
What happened?
Why has feminism gone from being a movement that was there to help
women, to one that is held responsible for much of what ails them?
And what does feminism really stand for?
In this refreshing book, Monica Dux and Zora Simic-who do call
themselves feminists-examine the popular debates in which feminism
stands accused. They show how this Great Feminist Denial is suppressing
genuine debate about the problems that women face, and preventing real
feminism from providing the solutions that it still has to offer.
The Great Feminist Denial puts an ailing feminist past to rest, and proposes
a way forward that offers the young women of today a new way of calling
themselves feminists.

Table of Contents

Part I: Desperately Seeking Feminism
1 Destination feminism: Are we there yet?
2 The straw feminist within
3 The 'M-word': Feminism and the media

Part II: The Debates
4 Single women: Feminism stole my babies and all I got were these lousy Manolo Blahniks
5 The motherload: Women and work
6 Pole-dancing for beginners
7 We are all feminists now (except the feminists)

Part III: Beyond the Denial
8 Removing the denial-coloured glasses
Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements

About the Author

Monica Dux is a Melbourne writer, who regularly contributes to the Age.
Zora Simic is a lecturer in Australian history at the Australian National University.

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