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CONTENTS HOW TO USE THIS eBOOK FOREWORD by Roxane Gay A POLITICAL and SOCIAL movement What is FEMINISM? Is it a MAN’S world? The RIGHT to an EDUCATION FIGHTING for a cause Biography: SOJOURNER TRUTH VOTES for women! Biography: EMMELINE PANKHURST WOMEN at war (Un)Equal RIGHTS! Women’s LIBERATION Biography: GLORIA STEINEM Living WITHOUT MEN BACKLASH! Girl POWER! Everyday SEXISM #METoo Biography: CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE BODY and IDENTITY Are WOMEN and MEN the same? All in the MIND? Are GIRLS BORN or MADE? Biography: SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Is GENDER fixed? INTERSECTING identities Biography: BELL HOOKS WOMANISM RELATIONSHIPS and FAMILIES Female FRIENDSHIPS GIRLS who like BOYS GIRLS who like GIRLS Biography: JUDITH BUTLER Happily MARRIED? HAVING it all? Raising GIRLS and BOYS FAMILY values An unfair DIVORCE CONTROLLING your own BODY Biography: FRIDA KAHLO No ALWAYS means NO DOMESTIC violence RECLAIM the NIGHT EDUCATION and WORK An EQUAL EDUCATION? Biography: MALALA YOUSAFZAI WORK matters WOMEN’S jobs, MEN’S jobs? Biography: AUDRE LORDE Doing it ALL Gender PAY GAP Is LANGUAGE man-made? What is MANSPLAINING? Women IN CHARGE CULTURE and SOCIETY The BEAUTY myth Do FEMINISTS wear HEELS? BODY image The MALE GAZE Does SEX sell? Women in the MEDIA Social MEDIA Becoming INVISIBLE Is PORNOGRAPHY ever OKAY? Biography: ALICE SCHWARZER Feminism and SEX WORK WOMEN of the world UNITE! Biography: RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ A global FEMINISM Can MEN be FEMINISTS? Directory of feminists Glossary Acknowledgments Imprint How to use this eBook Preferred application settings For the best reading experience, the following application settings are recommended: Colour theme: White background Font size: At the smallest point size Orientation: Landscape (for screen sizes over 9”), Portrait (for screen sizes below 9”) Scrolling view: [OFF] Text alignment: Auto-justification [OFF] (if the eBook reader has this feature) Auto-hyphenation: [OFF] (if the eBook reader has this feature) Font style: Publisher default setting [ON] (if the eBook reader has this feature) Though they would never identify as feminists, I learned a great deal of what I know about feminism and why it matters from my mom and dad. When I was a young girl, they allowed me to imagine the grandest things for myself. They encouraged my ambition. They encouraged me to thrive despite the ways the world might try to limit me as a black girl. Together and individually they always modeled the importance of equality and equity between men and women. They modeled how a family should live together and love one another. Despite such a supportive childhood, I didn’t really claim feminism or, if I am being honest, understand feminism until my early thirties. Throughout my twenties, I thought it would reflect badly upon me if I said I was a feminist. I had strange ideas about what feminism actually was. I did not want to be the kind of woman who dared to admit she believed herself to be equal to a man even though I knew, and have always known, I am equal to any man. I didn’t want to be a troublemaker even though I was, and am, very much a troublemaker when it comes to fighting for what I believe in. Feminism often gets a bad rap. People say feminists hate men and that we’re angry. They say we’re trying to take something away from men, when really we’re fighting for our right to be treated as human, to live in our bodies safely, to
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