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Title: |
Take Back The Fight |
| Sub-title: |
Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age |
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| By (author): |
Nora Loreto |
| ISBN10-13: |
1773632418 : 9781773632414 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Weight: |
.322 Kg. |
| Published: |
Fernwood Publishing - October 2020 |
| List Price: |
20.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon
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| Two decades of neoliberalism have destroyed a structured, pan-regional feminist movement in Canada. As a result, new generations of feminists have come to age without ever seeing the force that an organized social movement can have in democratic society. They have never benefited from the knowledge, the debates, the actions, the mass mobilizations or the leadership that all accompany a social movement and instead organize in decentralized silos. As a result, government and corporate leaders have co-opted feminism to turn it into something that can be bought, sold, or used to attract voters. Campaigns like #BeenRapedNeverReported, #MeToo, the SlutWalks and the Canadian Womenâ s marches, while important, donâ t yet have the organized power to bring the changes that activists seek to make in society. In Take Back The Fight, Nora Loreto examines the state of modern feminism in Canada and argues that feminists must organize to take back feminism from politicians, business leaders and journalists who distort and obscure its power. Furthermore, Loreto urges todayâ s activists to overcome the challenges that sank the movement decades ago, to stop centering whiteness as the quintessential womanâ s experience, and to find ways to rebuild the communities that have been obliterated by neoliberal economic policies. |
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