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30-Second Feminism
50 key ideas, events, and protests, each explained in half a minute
This book is available to read until 31st December, 2025
- 160 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more
About this book
This concise guide to feminism explains all the key concepts, people and terms in the movement, each explained in no more than 300 words and one picture.
Feminism is a global movement, developing with each cut and thrust of history to form a parallel 'herstory'. But what are the most important feminist ideas? What do terms like 'patriarchy','rape culture' and 'intersectionality' mean?
How have these terms emerged from historical conditions facing women around the world – from a lack of basic rights to harassment and intimidationonline? How has activism shaped those ideas and who have been the key activists?
This book traces the movement from its earliest beginnings through the suffrage movement, Women's Lib, the emergence of postcolonial feminism and into the present day. Important and seminal feminist texts and theories are explained, from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to The Feminine Mystique to Whipping Girl, giving you everything you need to know about the ongoing fight for women's equality.
From Mary Wollstonecraft to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from how the personal is political to changing views of sisterhood, and from the suffragettes to hashtag feminism, 30-Second Feminism offers readers the fastest way to enter the world of sexual and gender politics fully briefed, with an overview of the main ideas in feminism today – and an explanation of how they came into being.
Feminism is a global movement, developing with each cut and thrust of history to form a parallel 'herstory'. But what are the most important feminist ideas? What do terms like 'patriarchy','rape culture' and 'intersectionality' mean?
How have these terms emerged from historical conditions facing women around the world – from a lack of basic rights to harassment and intimidationonline? How has activism shaped those ideas and who have been the key activists?
This book traces the movement from its earliest beginnings through the suffrage movement, Women's Lib, the emergence of postcolonial feminism and into the present day. Important and seminal feminist texts and theories are explained, from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman to The Feminine Mystique to Whipping Girl, giving you everything you need to know about the ongoing fight for women's equality.
From Mary Wollstonecraft to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from how the personal is political to changing views of sisterhood, and from the suffragettes to hashtag feminism, 30-Second Feminism offers readers the fastest way to enter the world of sexual and gender politics fully briefed, with an overview of the main ideas in feminism today – and an explanation of how they came into being.
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INDEX
A
Aba Women’s War (1929) 140
ableism 136
abolitionist movement 42, 46, 48
abortion 54, 80, 96, 97, 100, 108
Abrams, Ricki 85
academic theory 26
activism 136
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 34
Agarwal, Bina 74
Ahluwalia, Kiranjit 86
alt-right 14
Alyokhina, Maria 150
Amadiume, Ifi 110
Anzaldúa, Gloria E. 122
Ardern, Jacinda 24, 106
authoritarianism 136
B
backlash 36
Bakare-Yusuf, Bibi 150
Baker, Sara Josephine 102
Bates, Laura 32, 70
Beauvoir, Simone de 128
Beyoncé 35
Bhutto, Benazir 24, 106
Bianco, Eugenia 104, 105
big three 14, 26
black feminism 14, 20, 72, 88, 92, 126
Bociurkiw, Marusya 30
bodily autonomy 96
body positivity 58, 66
Boserup, Ester 74
bra-burners 14
Brown, Rita Mae 120
Brownmiller, S...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Feminism on the Move
- The Struggle for Equality
- The Personal is Political
- Against Patriarchy
- My Body, My Choice
- Sisterhood
- A Movement of Protest
- Resources
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright