02503nam a2200421Ii 4500 9781787144750 UtOrBLW 20251029120759.0 m o d cr un||||||||| 171016s2017 enk ob 001 0 eng d 9781787144750 (e-book) 9781787149403 ePUB UtOrBLW eng rda UtOrBLW HQ1190 .W55 2017 JFFK bicssc SOC010000 bisacsh 305 Williams, Joanna, author. 61150 Women vs feminism : why we all need liberating from the Gender Wars / Joanna Williams. Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017. ©2017 1 online resource (xviii, 318 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes index. Includes bibliographical references. There's never been a better time to be a woman. Thanks to those feminists who fought for liberation, young women today have freedom and opportunities their grandmothers could barely have imagined. Girls do better at school than boys and are more likely to go to university. As a result, women are taking more of the top jobs and the gender pay gap has all but disappeared. Yet rather than encouraging women to seize the new possibilities open to them, contemporary feminism tells them they are still oppressed. Women vs Feminism: Why We All Need Liberating from the Gender Wars challenges this stance, unpicking the statistics from the horror stories to explore the reality of women's lives. It argues that today's feminism is obsessed with trivial issues - skinny models, badly phrased jokes and misplaced compliments - and focuses on the regulation of male behaviour, rather than female empowerment, pitching men and women against each other in a never-ending gender war that benefits no-one. Feminism today does women no favours and it's time we were all liberated from the gender wars. Print version record Feminist theory. 61151 Social Science Feminism & Feminist Theory. bisacsh 61152 Feminism & feminist theory. bicssc 61153 9781787144767 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/doi/10.1108/9781787144750 51992 51992