The Great Feminist Denial
Co-Author ・ 2008
Feminism has been a bad, bad girl.
Or so we are constantly told.
All around us, feminism is getting the blame for women not having babies. For the stress of working mothers. And for the rise of ‘raunch culture’. It seems that the final feminist destination is a sordid, selfish mess.
What happened?
Why has feminism gone from being a movement that was there to help women, to one that is held responsible for much of what ails them? And what does feminism really stand for?
In this refreshing book, Monica Dux and Zora Simic – who do call themselves feminists – examine the popular debates in which feminism stands accused. They show how this Great Feminist Denial is suppressing genuine debate about the problems that women face, and preventing real feminism from providing the solutions it still has to offer.
"...beneath its critique of feminism's image problem, The Great Feminist Denial raises a deeper question, about the whittling down of a very complex movement to reductive catch phrases and recycled arguments." RACHEL HILLS — THE AGE
“Required reading.” VOGUE
“Brilliant… I read The Great Feminist Denial with glee – it warmed my tired feminist heart.” CHRIS GORDON
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