Feminism Is...

Author: DK

Narrator: Olivia Dowd

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: DK Children

Published: 03/03/2020

Categories: Young Adult Nonfiction, Girls & Women, Social Topics, Civil & Human Rights, Nonfiction, Social Science, Feminism & Feminist Theory

Synopsis

"This book is something I wish I could have read when I was younger." - Roxane Gay, from the foreword of Feminism Is...

It didn't just start with #MeToo. Today's feminism is more diverse than ever before and asks all kinds of questions. Feminism Is...tackles topics including intersectionality, the gender pay gap, the male gaze, and mansplaining.

Narrated by Olivia Dowd - the first woman to play Macbeth on stage in the West End - find out what equality for women really means, get a short history of feminism, and take a look at the concerns affecting women at work, in the home, and around sex and identity. Get answers to the big issues and meet some of the most groundbreaking feminists like Audre Lorde and bell hooks.

Addressing ongoing feminist concerns and including an original foreword by Roxane Gay, Feminism Is... takes on important themes in informative, thought-provoking ways.

About The Author

Foreword writer: Roxane Gay's writing appears in Best American Mystery Stories 2014, Best American Short Stories 2012, Best Sex Writing 2012, A Public Space, McSweeney's, Tin House, Oxford American, American Short Fiction, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. She is the author of the books Ayiti, An Untamed State, the New York Times bestselling Bad Feminist, the nationally bestselling Difficult Women and the New York Times bestselling Hunger. She is also the author of World of Wakanda for Marvel. She has several books forthcoming and is also at work on television and film projects.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on June 18, 2021

A great book for any young person or anyone wanting to learn about feminism. Full of accessible information.......more

Goodreads review by Claude's on October 16, 2020

Well that was a good broad overview of feminism. It contains enough information to be interesting and educational without getting too overwhelming. The writing is accessible for its target audience. I think this book contains the minimum amount of information required to feel like you understand the......more

Goodreads review by OutlawPoet on June 25, 2019

I'm not sure I came out of this book with a better definition of feminism than - it's everything. The book has a broad and far reaching scope - maybe a little too broad at times. However...I liked it. I loved the history and the small bios of the major players in the feminist movement (even before it......more

Goodreads review by HelloLasse on February 11, 2021

Den her bog er fantastisk på så mange forskellige måder! Den her bog er så relevant ... Okay, jeg elsker den her bog! Bogen er til sendt fra Alvilda som en overraskelse - men stadig som et Anmeldereksemplar Fuld anmeldelse: [URL not allowed]-.........more

Goodreads review by Nemo on April 28, 2019

I thought that this book was quite interesting as it provided a short introduction to many topics in the complex world of Feminism. As someone who does not know an awful lot on the topic, I found it was a great starting point. It is, however, just that, an introduction. To be fair, the book is not c......more