Dead End Feminism - Couverture souple

Badinter, Elisabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0745633811 ISBN 13 : 9780745633817

Editeur : Polity Press, 2006

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"Badinter′s incisive essay appears quite compelling when setagainst the alternative: a diffuse, muddled culture ofresentment."
Times Literary Supplement

"This book is an event. Elisabeth Badinter is one of theintellectuals who has worked tirelessly to build the theoreticaledifice which has nourished French feminism. For thirty years shehas been part of the women s liberation movement, withoutever belonging to any of its cliques. Now she protests forcefullyagainst the way it has evolved."
L Express

"In Dead End Feminism, Elisabeth Badinter attacks the newmoral order that certain proponents of feminism have claimed toestablish in the last couple of decades. Having provided Frenchfeminism with its most solid intellectual foundations, she knowswhat she s talking about. Parity, pornography, prostitution,sexual harassment: Badinter carries out a veritable demolition ofreceived ideas in a vigorous and well argued work."
Le Figaro

"With her cutting intelligence and devastating turn of phrase,Elisabeth Badinter will make the guardians of the faith grit theirteeth. She runs the risk of betraying her camp; but it is her campthat has betrayed the cause of emancipation, which is the realconcern of both women and men."
Le Nouvel Observateur

Quatrième de couverture :

In this provocative new book, France s leading feministtheorist launches a broadside against the way in which feminism hasevolved since the 1990s. After the victories of the previousdecades, during which women had made some real advances in socialand political life, a new sensibility began to emerge in the 1990swhich led to a reversal in the hierarchy of values. The cult ofvictimhood has become widespread and has affected feminism. Womenare viewed as defenceless and oppressed, social violence and sexualviolence are treated as the same and a finger is pointed at theguilty one: man in all his guises. But by conflating real and falsevictims, feminism runs the risk of misunderstanding the battlesthat need to be waged and of losing all credibility with theyounger generation, which doesn t see things see things thisway. Preoccupied by putting men on trial, the feminism of the lastfew years has reactivated old stereotypes and left behind the verybattles that have long been its raison d être this, argues Badinter, is a dead end.

A huge bestseller in France, this book will be essential readingfor anyone interested in the changing relations between the sexesand our ways of thinking about sex and gender today.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0745633811
• ISBN 13: 9780745633817
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 136