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Jessa Crispin is the editor and founder of Bookslut.com and Spoliamag.com. She has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Boston Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Architect Magazine, The Globe and Mail, and other publications. Her first book, The Dead Ladies Project: mehr anzeigen Exile, Expats Ex-Countries, was published by the University of Chicago Press. She has lived in Ireland, Chicago, Texas, Kansas, and Germany. She currently lives nowhere in particular. weniger anzeigen

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Geburtstag
1978
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female
Nationalität
USA
Geburtsort
Lincoln, Kansas, USA

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Short punchy polemic. Makes me want to read Andrea Dworkin.
 
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audient_void | 14 weitere Rezensionen | Feb 11, 2024 |
Thought provoking in many ways, but I did not really finish.
 
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mslibrarynerd | 14 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 13, 2024 |
There are dozens of thorough and substantive reviews so I’m not going to trouble myself to write another. I’ll just say that if feminism were the narrow-minded, inconsistent, hypocritical straw feminist set of beliefs Crispin describes, I wouldn’t be a feminist either. Feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression. If it’s not intersectional it’s not feminism.
 
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LizzK | 14 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 8, 2023 |
A quick read that articulated pretty much all of my concerns with contemporary feminism that also made me rethink some of the things I consider "feminist". She makes some very good points about outrage culture and the use of politically correct language. Overall, this was a thought-provoking read, no matter which side of the debate you're on. I was hoping she'd have more actual statistics and data to back up her arguments, as well as some suggestions for what we can do about the situation. But I see the subtitle for this book calls it a manifesto, so it may be too much to ask for a solution. I suspect the issue is too big and complex for a neat solution anyway.… (mehr)
 
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serru | 14 weitere Rezensionen | Oct 6, 2022 |

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