
- 465 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The twentieth anniversary release of a groundbreaking feminist text: a powerful indictment of the current state of feminism, and a passionate call to arms
Today, people of all genders strive to uphold the goals of feminism and proudly embrace the term, but the movement itself is often beset with confusion and questions. Does personal empowerment happen at the expense of politics? Is feminism for the few—or does it speak to the many as they bump up against daily injustices? What does it mean to say "the future is female"?
In 2000, Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards's
Manifesta set out to chronicle the feminism of their generation. They brilliantly revealed the snags in various hubs of the movement—from antipathy to the term itself to the hyped hatred of feminism's imperfect spokespeople—and showed that these snags had not imperiled the feminist cause. The book went on to inspire a new generation of readers and has become a classic of contemporary feminist literature.
In the decades since
Manifesta was published, the world has changed in ways both promising and terrifying. This twentieth anniversary edition of
Manifesta features an updated bibliography, timeline, and resources, as well as a new introduction by the authors. Expertly unpacking both early women's history and the Third Wave feminism that seeded the active righteous intersectionality we see today,
Manifesta remains an urgent and necessary tool to make sense of our past, present, and future.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Still Manifesting Feminism: Ten Years and Counting
- Introduction to Jennifer
- Introduction to Amy
- PROLOGUE - A Day Without Feminism
- CHAPTER ONE - The Dinner Party
- CHAPTER TWO - What Is Feminism?
- CHAPTER THREE - Feminists Want to Know: Is the Media Dead?
- CHAPTER FOUR - Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon
- CHAPTER FIVE - Barbie vs. the Menstrual Kit
- CHAPTER SIX - Thou Shalt Not Become Thy Mother
- CHAPTER SEVEN - Who’s Afraid of Katie Roiphe?
- CHAPTER EIGHT - What Is Activism?
- EPILOGUE - A Day with Feminism
- Acknowledgments
- ALSO BY JENNIFER BAUMGARDNER AND AMY RICHARDS
- Manifesta
- Praise for Manifesta
- Appendix 1: Manifesta’s Timeline
- Appendix 2: A Young Woman’s Guide to Revolution—Chapter by Chapter
- Appendix 3: How to Put the Participatory Back into Participatory Democracy
- Notes
- Manifesta’s Lexicon
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes
- Copyright Page