Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism

by Nona Willis Aronowitz

Paperback, 2009

Status

Available

Publication

Seal Press (2009), Paperback, 220 pages

Description

What do young women care about? What are their hopes, worries, and ambitions? Have they heard of feminism, and do they relate to it? These are just a few of the questions journalist Nona Willis Aronowitz and photographer Emma Bee Bernstein set out to answer in Girldrive. In October 2007, Aronowitz and Bernstein took a cross-country road trip to meet with the 127 women profiled in this book, ranging from well-known feminists like Kathleen Hanna, Laura Kipnis, Erica Jong, and Michele Wallace, to women who don't relate to feminism at all. The result of these interviews, Girldrive is a regional chronicle of the struggles, concerns, successes, and insights of young women who are grappling,just as hard as their mothers and grandmothers did,to find, define, and fight for gender equity.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member ametralladoras
I liked this book a lot! It's like a coffee table book of current American feminism. The book is beautifully made and the pictures make me crave a road trip of my own. While I understand other's criticisms of the book lacking focus and not learning enough of the women they interviewed, reading
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about all these women made me really happy and has prompted me to start delving into some feminist works that have been sitting unread on my shelf for awhile.
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Original publication date

2009

Physical description

220 p.; 9 x 0.5 inches

ISBN

1580052738 / 9781580052733

Local notes

feminisms

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