Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism

by Nona Willis-Aronowitz, Emma Bee Bernstein

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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, show more 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. show less

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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 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.
I likeded the concept of this book, which is why I read it, but as I read, I was a bit disappointed by the lack of depth in the interviews.
Do you consider yourself a feminist? What does feminism mean to you? What issues and topics are most important to you? What do you hope for the future? These are just a few of the questions Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein posed to the 127 women profiled in this book, ranging from well-known feminists like Kathleen Hanna, Laura Kipnis, Erica Jong, Michele Wallace, and Starhawk, to women who don’t relate to feminism at all.
I'm in this book! Just a quote, not a full profile.

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Original publication date
2009
Dedication
For two kick-ass feminists who left this world too early --

Emma Bee Bernstein, my intellectual soulmate, whose biggest strength and weakness was feeling everything like a stab in the heart,

and my mom, Ellen Wi... (show all)llis, whose amazing life and jarring death was what inspired the Girldrive adventure in the first place.
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The story of Girldrive begins with eggs and Bloody Marys.
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Race your future to the finish line.
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Holmes, Anna; Hernandez, Daisy; Bussel, Rachel Kramer

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Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies
DDC/MDS
305.420973Society, government, & cultureSocial sciences, sociology & anthropologySocial group - Age, Gender, EthnicityWomenSocial role and status of womenStandard subdivisionsHistory, geographic treatment, biographyNorth America
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HQ1421 .A76Social sciencesThe family. Marriage, Women and SexualityThe Family. Marriage. WomenWomen. Feminism
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Reviews
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Rating
½ (3.36)
Languages
English
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Paper, Ebook
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