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‘We are the men in this situation’

Overcoming feminism’s racial distortion
by
April 2021, no. 430

White Feminism: From the suffragettes to influencers and who they leave behind by Koa Beck

Simon & Schuster, $32.99 pb, 319 pp

‘We are the men in this situation’

Overcoming feminism’s racial distortion
by
April 2021, no. 430

The most difficult thing for white, straight, able-bodied, middle-class, cis women to accept seems to be that feminism was designed for them. But the reality is that from a suffrage movement that forced Black marchers to walk at the rear to the ‘girlboss’ CEOs who bully their poorly paid underlings, the cause known as ‘feminism’ has long been dominated by the aspirations of an élite group of women. 

Megan Clement reviews 'White Feminism: From the suffragettes to influencers and who they leave behind' by Koa Beck

White Feminism: From the suffragettes to influencers and who they leave behind

by Koa Beck

Simon & Schuster, $32.99 pb, 319 pp

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