Lauren McKeon

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F-Bomb

Dispatches from the War on Feminism

From pop icons to working mothers, women are abandoning feminism in unprecedented numbers. Even scarier, they are also leading the charge to send it to its grave. Across North America, women head … 280 View

No More Nice Girls

Gender, Power, and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing by the Rules

A groundbreaking, insightful book about women and power from award-winning journalist Lauren McKeon, which shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power, ditching … 384 View
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Introduction

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We’ve got a long way to go, baby: Confronting the dangerous myth that we’ve made it

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In this chapter, the author confronts the dangerous 21st century myth that the push for gender equality has been a success and that the struggle is over. She argues that this is in no way the … 24 $2.40 Add
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Chapter 1: Power Hungry

Our Problem With Women and Power

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Feminists eat their young: The fourth wave, a fractured sisterhood, and the cataclysmic divide between feminist generations

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In this chapter, the author discusses the plurality of definitions that are assigned to feminism by different groups and the often intergenerational conflict that occurs between movements with … 25 $2.50 Add
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Chapter 2: This Time It’s Different

#MeToo, social change, and the cyclical nature of women’s push for power

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F-bomb generation: Empowerment, millennial women, and the “I’m not a feminist, but…” choir

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This chapter discusses sexist behaviour on Canadian university campuses and the push against feminism by progressive movements. 19 $1.90 Add
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Chapter 3: Would It Kill You to Smile?

How racism and sexism fuelled a new toxic masculinity — and galvanized a whole generation of women

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How a feMRA is made: In conversation with the leaders of today’s rising women-led anti-feminist movement

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This chapter discusses the involvment of women in the leadership and founding of Mens Rights Advocacy groups. 25 $2.50 Add
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Chapter 4: This Is What Equality Looks Like

For women, power often comes with a very heavy price

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The domestic wife: The problem with retro revival, the new motherhood, and the glamorization of pre-feminist gender Roles

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This chapter discusses the nostalgia-fueled revival of 20th century gender norms and the way in which the role of the housewife has come back into vogue. 29 $2.90 Add
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Chapter 5: No Boys Allowed

The revolutionary resurgence of women-only spaces

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One at the top, five million at the bottom: How we sold ourselves the equal opportunity lie and grew the violent push to keep women out of the workforce

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This chapter discusses the ways in which workplaces remain far from equal into the 21st century. 27 $2.70 Add
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Chapter 6: More Women, More Money

Why an equitable economy is good news for everybody

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It’s your fault: How anti-feminists narrowed the definition of rape and revived the deadly, viral culture of slut shaming and victim blaming

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This chapter discusses the ways in which anti-feminists have narrowed the definition of rape to delegitimize the experiences of countless victims. 31 $3.10 Add