90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality

ISBN-13: 9780062412348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 416 str.

Allison Yarrow

Opis

Perfect for fans of Peggy Orenstein, Rebecca Traister, and Lindy West, this incisive, timely book pierces our nostalgic 1990s "girl power" bubble to reveal a decade that drastically undermined a century of gains for American women, creating a toxic culture that persists today.The close of the 20^th century promised a new era of gender equality. However, the iconic women of the 1990s--such as Hillary Clinton, Courtney Love, Roseanne Barr, Marcia Clark, and Anita Hill--earned their places in history not as trailblazers, but as whipping girls of the media. During this decade, American society grew increasingly hostile to women who dared to speak up, challenge power, or defy rigid expectations for female behavior.Deeply researched yet thoroughly engaging, 90s Bitch untangles the complex history of women in the 1990s, exploring how they were maligned by the media, vilified by popular culture, and objectified in the marketplace. In an age where even a presidential nominee can be derided as a "nasty woman," it's clear that the epidemic of casting women as bitches persists. To understand why we must take a long, hard look back at the 1990s--a decade in which female empowerment was twisted into bitchification and exploitation.Yarrow's thoughtful, clear-eyed, and timely examination is a must-read for anyone seeking to understand gender politics and how we might end the "bitch epidemic" for the next generation.

Recenzje

"Allison Yarrow is a feminist and a muckraker in the tradition of Betty Friedan, Naomi Klein, and bell hooks. Her enthralling new book, 90s Bitch, takes a long overdue sledgehammer (and, when needed, a scalpel) to the misogynistic myths that cloud our view of that troubling decade. Like all great cultural historians, she examines every sordid cranny of our culture-its sexual mores, its pop culture and rampant consumerism-so as to lay bare the marching orders issued by the patriarchy: that women should shut up and put out, sell out, sell themselves short, and most of all obey. Yarrow's prose is brilliant, her insights are razor-sharp, and her moral aim is essential. If America is ever going to recover from the Trumpian tailspin wrought by masculine insecurity, we need feminists like Allison Yarrow keeping us all honest." Steve Almond, author of Bad Stories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country

O autorze

Allison Yarrow is an award-winning journalist and National Magazine Award finalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vox, and many others. She was a 2017 TED resident and is a 2018 grantee of the International Women's Media Foundation. She produced the Vice documentary "Misconception," and has appeared on the Today show, MSNBC, NPR and more. Allison was raised in Macon, Georgia and lives in Brooklyn, New York.