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Feminism for Women Hardcover – February 6, 2020

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Part feminist manifesto, part call to arms, Feminism for Women is a radical, new exploration of feminism. A frontline activist in the campaign to end male violence for the last four decades, Julie Bindel is a leading voice in the feminist movement. In her fight for women's rights, she has been up against innumerable barricades, fought the enemy, hailed great successes, witnessed pivotal moments and created groundbreaking feminist theory and practice.

This blistering polemic examines the way anti-feminist men, and the women who collaborate with them, have tried to push the women's liberation movement into the wilderness and how radical feminists have resisted and wrestled back the reins. In charting this history, Bindel will look clearly to the future and how younger, newer feminists can become radical again without the threat of being ostracised, bullied or ridiculed.

Drawing on interviews with renowned activists, Bindel conjures a vivid image of the current state of feminism. At its heart, Feminism for Women is a complex, personal journey of how feminism has evolved over the years - and a thoughtful investigation of what it means to be a feminist in the 21st century.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Constable (February 6, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1472132610
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1472132611
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 1.1 x 8.66 inches
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Katharine B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent review of feminism
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2024
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She covers it all. It is so important to hear from feminists who are on the front lines, telling it how it is. Highly recommend.
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Janis Cortese
5.0 out of 5 stars Thrilling to read, but depressing to realize how necessary it still is
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2022
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Julie Bindel is an amazing individual, insightful and unsparing in her appreciation of what it takes for women and girls to finally claim the basic humanity that's been denied us since the species began. But as thrilling as it is to read her speaking truth, it's just as enraging at how we still have to do so, and how we suffer such persecution simply for stating out loud the simply truth: that we are human, we are real, and we matter.
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Florence BL
5.0 out of 5 stars Being a radical feminist in 2021
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2021
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Julie Bindel's latest book is a brilliant overview of what feminism looks like in 2021. A well written dynamic read, full of personal stories, her own and the ones of so many women. She gives a voice to so many radical feminists who are being ostracized for wanting women's liberation. She is honest, nuanced and unapologetic. I truly recommend this book.
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Kate S
5.0 out of 5 stars Julie Bindel Doesn't Miss
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2022
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In a time when feminism has been replaced with a weak sauce of girlbossing and "sex positivity," Julie Bindel reminds us all of what we should really be fighting for- the liberation of women.
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d wli
5.0 out of 5 stars Julie Bindel is a voice of reason
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2022
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Always worth reading
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Layla
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for all women and men will benefit too
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2022
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Smart, eye opening, at times witty, at times sad almost despairing but at the end offers great vision and hope.
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JeanB
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 4, 2023
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A very interesting book. I would certainly recommend.
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Yvonne Flückiger
5.0 out of 5 stars feminism for women
Reviewed in Germany on October 30, 2021
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a very important book, which was long overdue. Julie Bindel puts feminism and misogyne into the right and true Perspektiv.
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M G Marshall
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for women.
Reviewed in Australia on January 30, 2022
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A brilliant look at the way women are subsumed under the sludge of identity politics and patriarchal contempt. It gives real hope for change for the better.
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itagaki_unlucky
4.0 out of 5 stars 面白いですよ
Reviewed in Japan on January 8, 2022
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第２派フェミニズムの論客によるフェミニズム論。
「みんなのため」に成り下がったフェミニズムから「女性の為」のフェミニズムを取り戻す！
女性の問題は堕胎・性暴力・ポルノ・売春など身体女性特有の現象から起こるものであり、自認女性だからではない！　
こんな感じです。
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DavidB
5.0 out of 5 stars The subversion of feminism
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2022
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This new book was discussed by the men's book group I belong to. We found the book interesting and accessible and were in agreement with its main arguments.

Key issues raised include the following:

*Liberal vs radical feminism*

According to Bindel the difference between these two approaches boils down to equality vs liberation. Radical feminists see women as an oppressed sex class subject to male violence (a class based analysis rooted in Marxism, though Bindel doesn’t go into this).

The liberal vs radical theme runs through the book, and was picked up by a number of participants. One flagged up the work of Janice Raymond, who criticises the liberal view that by reporting on women’s victimhood, radical feminists make them seem passive and lacking in agency. Another pointed out that while a woman might freely choose to work in prostitution for example, seeing this purely as an exercise of free choice ignores broader issues of general oppression and power imbalance.

*Subversion of feminist concepts*

An interesting aspect of the liberal/radical feminist conflict. Examples include the concept of safe spaces – originating in 1970s feminism, these were actual spaces protected from the threat of male violence, but the concept has increasingly come to mean safety from threatening opinions (Bindel talks about an academic conference she attended where students were offered a “safe” room plastered with comforting slogans like “trans women are women.”)

Another example is intersectionality, which began as he idea that people can be subject to a variety of different oppressions, therefore it’s not enough to talk about women’s liberation without taking account of the fact that women can be further oppressed on account of being black or working class, etc. Nowadays intersectionality has come to mean inclusivity, i.e. feminists are expected to be inclusive of people who are oppressed or marginalised but who aren’t actually women. The problem with this is that it risks turning feminism into a campaign for social justice in general with no specific focus on women’s rights (or even hostile to them).

*Sexual revolution – good or bad?*

The sexual revolution of the 60s and 70s is usually seen as liberating for both men and women. But Bindel questions this, pointing out that women have continued to be held to account for their sexual behaviour in a way that doesn’t apply to men (i.e. the same old story). The pill, while “liberating” women from the fear of pregnancy, ironically makes it harder to resist pressure for sex from male partners as it is one less reason for saying No. A number of feminists such as Sheila Jeffreys have been saying this for a long time ('Anticlimax' 1990) but the explosion of pornography and porn culture has recently given it new traction. A new book by Louise Perry 'The Case against the Sexual Revolution' takes up the theme.
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