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Did feminism fail ‘ordinary women’? |
15 July 2009 |
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Jane McLoughlin’s controversial new book
The feminist movement of the 1960s and 70s made no impact on women’s lives. Instead, the vast majority of women were released from the confines of a role as housewife by popular culture, which gave them economic power and political significance as consumers. This is the argument put forward by the journalist, Jane McLoughlin, in her book A World According to Women; An End to Thinking. She says that women have become the dominant force in society, but that the very nature of the popular culture that empowered them -emotional and trivial - has given them, and society, no template for rational thought. Jenni discusses this theory with Jane McLoughlin and the writer and activist Julie Bindel.
‘A World According to Women; An End to Thinking’, by Jane McLoughlin, is published by Quartet Books, ISBN: 978 0 7043 7162 0 |
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