The Morning After: Sex, Fear, and Feminism
by:
Katie Roiphe (author)
A 24-year-old graduate student at Princeton takes on the feminist establishment in an explosive indictment of the women's movement today. She takes an unflinching look at today's sexual politics on campus and critiques modern women's willingness to embrace the role of victim.
A 24-year-old graduate student at Princeton takes on the feminist establishment in an explosive indictment of the women's movement today. She takes an unflinching look at today's sexual politics on campus and critiques modern women's willingness to embrace the role of victim.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780316754323 (0316754323)
Publish date: September 7th 1994
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 200
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Feminism,
Politics,
Sexuality,
Female Authors,
Womens,
Gender,
Gender Studies,
Womens Studies
Victim-blaming rape apologism. Roiphe argues that date rape doesn't exist/isn't really rape/is all mixed communications, based on the "evidence" that none of her friends have told her about being raped (except for the one that did). Well, no shit. If one of my friends had Roiphe's opinions, I wou...
Well, she does have some good points about how some people narrowly define feminism. I do think feminism should be able to debate topics. However, honestly, if you are going to say rape statstics are wrong or inflated, you need to offer more proof than it doesn't seem to happen at the two colleges...
A self-identified feminist blames feminism for failings in modern society. Yeah, of course, rape is a problem caused by feminism. Gack. When will those feminists stop raping themselves?