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There's never been a better time to be a woman. Thanks to those feminists who fought for liberation, young women today have freedom and opportunities their grandmothers could barely have imagined. Girls do better at school than boys and are more likely to go to university. As a result, women are taking more of the top jobs and the gender pay gap has all but disappeared. Yet rather than encouraging women to seize the new possibilities open to them, contemporary feminism tells them they are still oppressed.

Women vs Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars challenges this stance, unpicking the statistics from the horror stories to explore the reality of women's lives. It argues that today's feminism is obsessed with trivial issues skinny models, badly phrased jokes and misplaced compliments and focuses on the regulation of male behaviour, rather than female empowerment, pitching men and women against each other in a never-ending gender war that benefits no-one.

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Emerald Publishing Limited
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10 Oct. 2017
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12.7 x 2.03 x 19.56 cm
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1787144763
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978-1787144767
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"The joy of reading Joanna Williams's writing is that you quickly realize that she represents a rare combination. She knows her feminist theory inside out, and yet she also sees immediately where contemporary feminism becomes misguided and pernicious." - The Conservative Woman

"A thoughtful critique of modern feminism." --The Quarterly Review

"Women vs Feminism is a superb expose of today's victim feminism. It tells the story of how a once valiant movement for equality and freedom devolved into a male-bashing grievance-fest. This meticulously researched book will drive the gender activists crazy--and delight those who care about truth, rules of evidence, and genuine liberation." - Christina Hoff Sommers, Author of Who Stole Feminism?

"For those of us who've been involved in fighting for women's liberation for years, it has been tragic to watch contemporary feminism become the enemy of freedom. Do not despair. Joanna Williams's wonderful book not only uses erudition, philosophy and polemics to explain how on earth this betrayal has happened but more importantly it is a bravura clarion call urging women to throw off the shackles of hapless victimhood and instead take control of their destiny. I loved every word." --Claire Fox, Director, Institute of Ideas

The author critiques feminism, views it as demonizing men and degrading women by treating them as victims, and raises questions about the direction and purpose of feminism today. She argues that girls are doing better at school than boys, they are entering higher education in greater numbers than men, they are getting degrees in more subjects, and they have better employment prospects, while the gender pay gap has narrowed. She explores the impact of feminism on education; the experiences of women at work and problems with viewing the workplace through gender; the gender pay gap, its politicization, and problems with it; and why women are more likely to choose part-time work. She discusses the difference between women's progress at school and work and the perception of their lives, particularly how the view of women as victims creates a focus on women as oppressed, arguing that this claim has little meaning today. She considers men's and women's private relationships and how feminism moved from celebrating sexual liberation to seeking to regulate sex and relationships by focusing on sexual harassment, pornography, and rape culture, removing women's sexual agency; the consequences of problematizing and policing heterosexuality and masculinity; and the changing nature of campaigns for women's rights from the 19th century through second-wave feminism in the 1970s, subsequent ideas about intersectionality and identity politics, and the consequences of the move toward identity politics for feminism and what it means to be a woman. --Annotation ©2017, Ringgold Inc. Portland, OR, (protoview.com)

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Joanna Williams is Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent and is the author of Academic Freedom in an Age of Conformity and Consuming Higher Education: Why Learning Can't Be Bought. She is education editor of the online magazine Spiked, a frequent contributor to The Spectator, and has written for numerous other publications from the Times Higher Education to the Erotic Review.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Emerald Publishing Limited; 1st edition (10 Oct. 2017)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1787144763

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1787144767

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 2.03 x 19.56 cm

Best Sellers Rank: 309,628 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Bridges not ditches.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 December 2018
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The early material on education is, perhaps, rather obvious, though arguably necessary, but thereafter the book picks up steam and the final chapters define the faults and dangers of extreme current feminism with force and clarity. The author is not opposed to feminism itself, certainly in its earlier manifestations but is able to see both the absurdity and the destructive nature of much recent feminist rhetoric and activity. She is particularly good on the sensitive issue of gender, but above all she deplores the deep divisions that have been created between the sexes and the dishonest use of information and statistics to canvass support for so much that is patently foolish and hurtful. Recommended.
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Larissa Donna
with complex issues skilfully rendered easily digestible, intelligent
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 July 2018
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I am a voracious reader of both fiction and non-fiction. This is the most important book I have read regarding culture and society and I have referred to it in my line of work more than any other. It is thumbed through, and bookmarked and underlined from use. Well-written, with complex issues skilfully rendered easily digestible, intelligent, truthful, pragmatic - this book makes full conversations around gender possible. It means we get to the real issues we need to deal with, without being blinded and brainwashed by agenda. It gives a very positive message to women and encourages strengthening of the individual - a refreshing antidote to the current trend towards self-victimisation, which is unnecessary and helps no-one, least of all the person.Joanna Williams is, in my view, the most important commentator and academic on this issue today.
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Awful. Transphobic writer. Internalised misogyny.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 August 2020
This is great if you are interested in
transphobic writers, who see gender as binary. This creates an idea of gender equality as achieved and tells us not to sweat the 'small stuff' - misogynist jokes, women's bodies as constantly sexualised, body image, women of colour suffering mistreatment, trans women suffering discrimination. We should just all suck it up and deal with it, right? Same as how women were taught to suck up having zero rights over property, their children or the vote. Same as how marital rape was seen as being a good wife, same as even the 70s when domestic violence was recorded by police as a domestic or husband problems. So clearly written by a white, cis, female, privileged, thin woman, in that it is concerned only with oneself. For example, only seeing thin models is not problematic if you are thin of straight sized. Close the blinds and ignore what doesn't affect you.

It's a no from me.
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Claire
A book for those who dislike feminist and will pick and chose what feminism is.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 September 2018
I've read a lot of feminist books, and I wanted to be open to the otherside, but this book was very frustrating.
None of the supposed revelations were new to me, or went against anything I've read in other "feminist" books or articles.

It's easy to be right when you make up what the other side is thinking.
Feminism is a massive complex, mix of various gender equality movements. Its easy to pick and chose issues.
The book complains that feminism focuses on trivial issues but decries So many 'issues' that are virtually unheard of and have no impact on the vast majority of people.

It's essentially a feminist book, for people who are too stubborn to call themselves feminists.
Feminism is the fight against sexism in all its forms, and how it affects BOTH genders.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 November 2017
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Yes yes yes This is what I think. I saw the book mentioned in the Daily Telegraph and I'm so glad I bought it. It reminds me of More Or Less on Radio 4 (only better). Don't be put off buying it because it might be hard to read. It's not at all difficult to read. It moves at a pace and is hard to put down.
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Jonathan Abecassis
Well researched academic look at modern feminism
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 October 2017
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This book really goes into the academic side of how feminism has ended up in the bizarre state that its in at the moment, and isn't a rant at all. This isn't just Jo giving her opinions like some of the other books out there - it's really well researched and referenced, which is why a lot of people will not like it and feel that it interrupts their world view.
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M. Crane
Excellent book covering aspects which are rarely discussed as Feminists ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 March 2018
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Excellent book covering aspects which are rarely discussed as Feminists appear to be heard over those who feel the situation has gone too far.
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Richard Thompson
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Long overdue!
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