Why I Am Not A Feminist, Jessa Crispin
Why I Am Not A Feminist, Jessa Crispin
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Why I Am Not A Feminist
A Feminist Manifesto

Author: Jessa Crispin

Narrator: Jessa Crispin

Unabridged: 3 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/21/2017

Synopsis

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.

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 Times, Guardian, Washington Post, Los 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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Trish on December 06, 2017

Jessa Crispin sets out to discomfit us. She is so antagonistic to begin I almost put the audiobook aside. The author reads the Penguin Random House edition, and there is a sarcasm and spite to her voice that I long ago decided I would rather avoid. Yes, she’s angry. But she made me curious. How and......more

Goodreads review by Ilenia on April 18, 2018

Un po' troppe le contraddizioni, pochi gli esempi. Capisco sia un pamphlet e non un vero e proprio saggio ma le argomentazioni spesso mancano di forza e sono vaghe. Tuttavia ne consiglio assolutamente la lettura per avere una visione critica del cosiddetto "femminismo da copertina" che va molto di m......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on September 23, 2017

A provocative book that has a couple of important insights but hurts itself overall by prioritizing stylistic flare over substance. Its title, for example - when you read the book, you can see that Jessa Crispin used this title just to draw people's attention, because she calls for a restructuring o......more

Goodreads review by Viv on March 05, 2017

If by declaring myself a feminist I must reassure you that I am not angry, that I pose no threat, then feminism is definitely not for me. I am angry. And I do pose a threat. I can see why this is a polarising book. It is angry; it is a bit ranty; and it is far from a comfortable read. However, I thin......more

Goodreads review by Blair on September 10, 2018

There's a lot that's interesting in this short, engaging book, and early in Why I am Not a Feminist, Jessa Crispin makes some points that had me nodding along. She opens her manifesto with a disparaging list of what feminism now is. It has become 'a decade-long conversation about which television sh......more

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