The Appeal of Womanly Feminism
“A new feminism is emerging.” So goes the tagline of Fairer Disputations, a new online repository of literature and journalism on sex-realist feminism—an initiative by the Abigail Adams Institute’s Wollstonecraft Project. A century and more of agitation for women’s rights has birthed cynicism as well as much else, and there are many whose patience has worn out, after bobbing upon the many waves of feminism over their lifetime.
Undoubtedly, this new initiative looks like another reincarnation of an idea spouting all the old tropes that the patriarchy is terrible, tradition stifles women, and children should be optional extensions of Self. Perhaps it is simply another attempt for millennial fems to add their own personal touch or regain a reputation otherwise sullied by earlier forms of the same name.
This new branding could be a pivot, of sorts; modern feminists are under no illusions that things are going well for their reputation. Monica Dux and Zora Simic summarise it…
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