Description
A woman’s life is different. This is clear when a stranger’s catcall makes her feel targeted in the street. When politicians make off-the-cuff sexist remarks. When media commentators wade in with their condemnation of free, unrestricted abortion. When a father is praised to the skies for attending parents’ evening while the mother’s attendance is taken for granted. When they fire her because she’s pregnant. When they dismiss her medical symptoms as anxiety. To counter sexism today, we need to learn the art of self-defence. Today, feminism is more alive and more necessary than ever because discrimination against women has become more subtle and difficult to detect, yet it retains its paralysing power. With combative energy and acerbic wit, Bel Olid explains the key concepts of the current feminist struggle in a smart, radical and often counterintuitive way.
Table of Contents
To Be or Not to Be
Machine Guns
Not All Men
Raped Bodies, Rapable Bodies
Misfits
Don’t Wash Your Dirty Linen in Public
Love Doesn’t Kill
Together We’ll Take Back the Night
#Onsónlesdones
The School of Life
We Don’t Want to Wear the Trousers
Being Nothing to Be Everything
Feminist mini-lexicon: 25 words for naming reality
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