The Future of Feminism

by Sylvia Walby

Feminism is not dead. This is not a postfeminist era. Feminism is still vibrant, despite declarations that it is over. Feminism is a success, although many gender inequalities remain. Feminism is taking powerful new forms, which makes it unrecognisable to some. In The Future of Feminism , Sylvia Walby offers a provocative riposte to the notion that feminism is dead. Substantiating her arguments with evidence of the vibrancy of contemporary feminism in civil society and beyond, she provides a succinct yet comprehensive critical review of recent treatments of feminism explaining why they have got it wrong. The book provides the definitive account of feminism's new and varied projects, goals, alliances and organizational forms, including feminism as a global wave. It offers engaged accounts of feminist activities across a range of domains in the economy, polity, violence and civil society. Successful feminist projects are not always named as feminist, sometimes being mainstreamed into coalitions with social democratic and global human rights activists. Feminism is now global, though also taking local forms, and these new coalitions are the basis for the future of feminism. On the future of feminism depends not only the future of gender inequality but the future of social inequality more generally.

Genres: Feminism, Sociology, Politics

224 pages, Paperback

First published August 8, 2011

Reviews

[Teleseparatist · Rating 2 out of 5]

The content was relatively interesting and quite relevant, but the book was extremely dry, repetitive and I hated the manner in which it referenced sources (only global citations, no page numbers anywhere, very vague references that potentially misrepresented the cited source - is the book in question an example of the tendency or about the tendency?) as it made it less than helpful as a reference point (which I had expected it to be).

[Adrienne Urbanski · Rating 3 out of 5]

reading this for a review/interview.

[Amelia · Rating 3 out of 5]

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