Fire with fire : the new female power and how it will change the 21st century /: the new female power and how it will change the 21st century. (1994 ©1993)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: New female power and how it will change the 21st century
• Further Information: Note: Naomi Wolf.
• Other Names: Wolf, Naomi
• Contents: Introduction --- Part 1. The decline of the masculine empire, Anita Hill, and the genderquake. 1. Fault line -- 2. The decline of the masculine empire -- 3. Genderquake: the evidence -- 4. A change in consciousness: women learn to imagine triumph ---- Part 2. What went wrong? How so many women and their movement parted ways. 5. Out of touch? -- 6. Plagues of a movement: 60s hangover, dyke-baiting, and silencing on the job -- 7. Media omission and intellectual polarization: how to suffocate the ideas of a revolution -- 8. Oxygen deprivation: bad intellectual habits --- Part 3. Victim feminism versus power feminism. 9. Two traditions -- 10. Core mythology of victim feminism -- 11. Case studies -- 12. How the traditions clash today -- 13. Victim feminism's recent impasses -- 14. The turning point --- Part 4. Toward a new psychology of female power. 15. Are we ready to embrace equality? -- 16. The feminine fear of power --- Part 5. What do we do now? Power feminism in action. 17. New psychological strategies -- 18. What we can do now.
• Publisher Details: London : Vintage
• Publication Date: 1994
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 378 pages)
• Subjects: 305.42/0973; Power (Social sciences); Women -- United States; Equality; Feminist theory -- United States; Feminism -- United States; Equality; Feminism; Feminist theory; Power (Social sciences); Women; United States; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781448180998; 1448180996
• Related ISBNs: 0099329611; 9780099329619
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-367) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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