{"id":8293,"date":"2017-08-21T18:55:53","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T16:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=8293"},"modified":"2017-08-21T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T17:05:11","slug":"why-i-am-not-a-feminist-a-searing-rejection-of-contemporary-feminism-and-a-bracing-manifesto-for-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2017\/08\/why-i-am-not-a-feminist-a-searing-rejection-of-contemporary-feminism-and-a-bracing-manifesto-for-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"WHY I AM NOT A FEMINIST: a searing rejection of contemporary feminism\u2026 and a bracing manifesto for revolution."},"content":{"rendered":"
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A FEMINIST MANIFESTO<\/a><\/h3>\n

JESSA CRISPIN<\/h3>\n

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Outspoken critic Jessa Crispin delivers a searing rejection of contemporary feminism\u2026 and a bracing manifesto for revolution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Why I Am Not A Feminist\u00a0<\/i>is a radical, fearless call for revolution. It accuses the feminist movement of obliviousness, irrelevance, and cowardice\u2014and demands nothing less than the total dismantling of a system of oppression.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jessa Crispin<\/b>\u00a0is the editor and founder of the online magazines\u00a0Bookslut<\/i>\u00a0\u2014 one of America\u2019s very first book blogs \u2014 and the literary journal\u00a0Spolia.<\/i>\u00a0She is the author of\u00a0The Dead Ladies Project<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0The Creative Tarot<\/i>, and has written for the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>,\u00a0Guardian, Washington Post<\/i>,\u00a0Los Angeles Review of Books<\/i>, NPR.org,\u00a0Chicago Sun-Times<\/i>,\u00a0and\u00a0Architect Magazine<\/i>, among other publications. She has lived in Lincoln, Kansas; Austin, Texas; Dublin, Ireland; Chicago, Illinois; Berlin, Germany; and elsewhere. She\u00a0currently resides in New York City.<\/p>\n

REVIEWS:<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The point of \u2018Why I Am Not a Feminist\u2019 isn\u2019t really that Crispin is not a feminist; it\u2019s that she has no interest in being a part of a club that has opened its doors and lost sight of its politics\u2014a club that would, if she weren\u2019t so busy disavowing it, invite Kellyanne Conway in\u2026. Crispin\u2019s argument is bracing, and a rare counterbalance; where feminism is concerned, broad acceptability is almost always framed as an unquestioned good.\u201d \u2014The New Yorker<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSmall but mighty, a bracing, contradictory volume full of fury. It\u2019s a rousing call for unity that\u2019s not afraid to alienate, at once breezy and\u00a0foreboding. It\u2019s a radical text written in accessible, entertaining prose, slipped nonchalantly into the mainstream\u2026.A blueprint for women who care about equal rights for all women, and really, all humans.\u201d \u2014Flavorwire<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cPerceptive and impassioned\u2026a useful skewering of feminism\u2019s worst tendencies\u2026.<\/span>There\u2019s something decidedly appealing, even romantic, about this vision of a radical movement that will, in Crispin\u2019s words, set about \u2019fully dismantling\u2019 the system.<\/span>\u201d \u2014New Republic<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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