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*This book is something I wish I could have read when I was younger. --Roxane Gay, from the foreword ofFeminism Is...***

It didnt just start with #MeToo. Todays feminism is more diverse than ever before and asks all kinds of questions. Combining insightful text with graphic illustrations, Feminism Is...tackles topics including intersectionality, the gender pay gap, the male gaze, and mansplaining.

Find out what equality for women really means, get a short history of feminism, and take a look at the concerns affecting women at work, in the home, and around sex and identity. Get answers to the big issues and meet some of the most groundbreaking feminists like Audre Lorde and bell hooks.

Addressing ongoing feminist concerns and including an original foreword by Roxane Gay, Feminism Is... takes on important themes in informative, thought-provoking ways.

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Though they would never identify as feminists, I learned a great deal of what I know about feminism and why it matters from my mom and dad. When I was a young girl, they allowed me to imagine the grandest things for myself. They encouraged my ambition. They encouraged me to thrive despite the ways the world might try to limit me as a black girl. Together and individually they always modeled the importance of equality and equity between men and women. They modeled how a family should live together and love one another.

Despite such a supportive childhood, I didnt really claim feminism or, if I am being honest, understand feminism until my early thirties. Throughout my twenties, I thought it would reflect badly upon me if I said I was a feminist. I had strange ideas about what feminism actually was. I did not want to be the kind of woman who dared to admit she believed herself to be equal to a man even though I knew, and have always known, I am equal to any man. I didnt want to be a troublemaker even though I was, and am, very much a troublemaker when it comes to fighting for what I believe in.

Feminism often gets a bad rap. People say feminists hate men and that were angry. They say were trying to take something away from men, when really were fighting for our right to be treated as human, to live in our bodies safely, to make choices about our bodies without interference, to be paid equally for equal work, to be free. Feminism is not a new idea, but for some reason, after more than a hundred years, were still trying to define feminism and demonstrate its importance even though feminism should be a default characteristic of humanity.

This book is something I wish I could have read when I was younger. It defines feminism and it also does moreit demonstrates feminism in action, how it shapes our lives and how we move through the world. In these pages, youll learn about the history of feminism, notable feminists, and how feminism influences gender and gender identity, sexuality, family, bodies, beauty, consent, work, and relationshipsall the areas of our lives. I hope this book expands your understanding of feminism and helps you claim feminism as part of your identity, no matter who you are.


ROXANE GAY

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Feminism is a movement that fights for change. Early feminists campaigned to end slavery, and for equal suffrage and human rights for women. Later feminists continued this progress, focusing on other inequalities affecting women, such as in education and relationships. Today, the movement is still powerfulcalling out sexual harassment and addressing the sexism in everyday situations.

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Most of us will have heard the word feminism but might struggle if someone asked us to explain it. What is feminism, and who is it for? It doesnt have to be complicated. As the UK campaign group the Fawcett Society has stated, the simple truth is if you want a more equal society for women and men then you are in fact a feminist.

Challenging inequality

For every book about feminism there are probably as many definitionsits diversity is both its joy and challenge. Common to most definitions, however, is a belief that men and women, girls and boys, should be treated equally (and a recognition that, at the moment, were not). Its not about arguing that men and women are the same, nor that all women are the same. It is a belief that despite our differences we should all be treated fairly and with respect. It is about equal rights and opportunities for all.

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Feminist struggle

Feminism is about action. It is a movement that seeks to bring about positive social change. And it has been massively successfultransforming society at all levels. Many women across the globe now have the vote, a right to an education, and more representation in the media. But theres still a ways to go. Although many of its goals have been set in motionthere are laws on equal pay, rape and domestic violence are crimes in many nations, divorce is more accessiblethey have not all been achieved. Women in different parts of the world face different daily challenges, and, even in the developed world, poverty, hunger, illiteracy, and violence remain issues for some.

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Celebrating difference

Feminist thinkers focus on the interplay of gender, race, disability, sexuality, class, and power to make sure feminism is relevant to us all. They see the shared aspects of womens experiences while being aware of differencein identity, lived experience, and forms of privilege. And its a myth that feminists think that women should have more power than men. In fact, the social change that feminists want would benefit all people, freeing both women and men from restrictive gender roles. Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in We Should All Be Feminists (2014), says a feminist is a man or a woman who says, yes, theres a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it, we must do better. All of us, women and men, must do better. A feminist is someone who fights for equality, who challenges prejudice, discrimination, and sexism. To be a feminist is something to be proud of!

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A central idea of feminism is that we are living in a patriarchya society that values men over women, and where men hold the power and women are largely excluded from it. So have the odds been stacked against women from the start?

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