The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism
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Young feminists today are becoming activists on behalf of many causes beyond the classic—and indispensable—feminist ones of reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. In The Fire This Time, Dawn Martin, one of four founders of The Third Wave Foundation—a multiracial, multi-issue, and multicultural activist organization—and Vivien Labaton, its first executive director, offer an exciting cross section of feminist voices that express new directions in activism, identity, and thought. Ayana Bird dissects the role of black women in hip-hop; Joshua Breitbart and Ana Noguiera demonstrate how Indimedia can break the hold of the corporate media over the news; and Jennifer Bleyer reviews the exhilarating power unleashed by the GirlZine movement. Anna Kirkland's analysis of transsexual and transgendered people and the law is deeply thoughtful, and Shireen Lee's piece on women, technology, and feminism envisions empowering prospects for women..
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Ranging from media and culture to politics and globalization, The Fire This Timeis a call to new frontiers of activism, and helps reinvent feminism for a new generation.
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