Jessa Crispin

Why I Am Not a Feminist

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Are you a feminist? Do you believe women are human beings and that they deserve all the same rights as men? If so, then you are a feminist . . .

Or are you? Is it really that simple? Outspoken cultural critic Jessa Crispin says somewhere along the way, the movement for female liberation sacrificed meaning for acceptance, and left us with a banal, polite, ineffectual pose that barely challenges the status quo.

In this bracing, fiercely intelligent manifesto, she demands more: nothing less than the total dismantling of the system of oppression—and of what people currently think of as “feminism.”

‘The author’s ferocious critique effectively reframes the terms of any serious discussion of feminism. You’ll never trust a you-go-girl just-lean-in bromide again. Forget busting glass ceilings. Crispin has taken a wrecking ball to the whole structure.’ —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

‘Feminists have, in fact, become polite insiders, and Crispin is here to show them how to punch their way out. A rallying manifesto; start swinging.’ —Library Journal

‘Rabble-rousing, impolitic, and eloquent, Why I Am Not a Feminist models the latitudes and freedoms it wants us all—us women, us feminists, us humans—to embody. Enough with the safety-mongering, says Crispin: Let’s break stuff! Let’s get messy! Let’s make feminism radical again.’ —Laura Kipnis, Men: Notes from an Ongoing Investigation

Jessa Crispin is the editor and founder of the online magazine Bookslut and the online literary journal Spolia. She is the author of The Dead Ladies Project and The Creative Tarot, and has written for numerous leading publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post and others.
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100 printed pages
Original publication
2017
Publication year
2017
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Quotes

  • Cemara Dindahas quoted5 years ago
    There are questions we need to ask ourselves. They’re going to make us uncomfortable. The first: Has feminism created a better world? Not just for you personally, but for both women and men in all levels of society. The next: Has feminism created the space for men to take on traditionally feminine traits at the same level it has created the space for women to take on traditionally masculine traits? And lastly: If we say we want a better
  • Cemara Dindahas quoted5 years ago
    Our job, as feminists, should not be recruitment. It should not be conversion. It should be listening to the wants and needs of women that might differ from our own. The condescending attitude of Western feminists toward women in Muslim countries—this idea that these women need to be rescued from their head scarves and their traditions—is a good illustration of that.
  • Cemara Dindahas quoted5 years ago
    And yet if we were able to sit down, without judgment, and ask what we’re not offering these women, we might actually be able to get somewhere. Not along the lines of conversion. We need to stop thinking that way. Instead, we could see the limitations of our own project; that we’re not as smart as we think we are; that maybe the ways these women are unhappy line up with the ways we are unhappy.

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