Most of the Australian feminist blogosphere has done a review of it – see here, here, here, here and here. The Great Feminist Denial, by Monica Dux and Zora Simic Second, that feminism is to blame for pretty much everything wrong with society today (high divorce rates, juvenile deliquency, raunch culture, the oppression of women in third world countries, and the single woman who can’t get a man). First, that feminism has succeeded, so that there is no need for it any more, so anyone who calls themselves a feminist must be a whinger. There are two parts to that bad view (fairly contradictory). And for around five years I worked with Catherine Fox’s husband, so I found it pretty interesting to read the work life balance parts of that book.īoth of these books seem to be written in a reaction to the bad name that feminism has these days. I’m an obscure enough blogger that a free copy is pretty exciting for me. I got given a copy of The Great Feminist Denial for free as a review copy. The Great Feminist Denial, by Monica Dux and Zora Simic, and The F Word: How We Learned to Swear by Feminism, by Jane Caro and Catherine Fox. In today’s book review, I’m doing a combined review of two Australian feminist books that were published in 2008.
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