WGST 1808 Chapter 4: READING NOTES - Talkin' 'bout whose generation?! (Candis Steenbergen)

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Aalya Ahmad

Document Summary

Announcing the arrival of a young, independent, confident, sexually free, & aggressive generation of women into the public sphere, public discourse has exalted the victory of women"s liberation and, consequently, professed the imminent death of feminism. Next generation of feminists is concerned w/ little more than . Individual gain: the consumption of material goods, the exertion of their own enlightened power. Concluded that the insurgence of young self-absorbed women has contributed to the flightiness of feminism. Heterosexual, white, able-bodied, well-educated, financially successful, aggressive, & overtly sexual women have received an enormous amount of print space and air time for their assertions that women in the 1990s have made it . Feminists are portrayed as anti-me, anti-sex, & obsessed w/ notions of women as hapless victims. Post-feminism has chic, inoffensive, commercial qualities easily absorbed, painless product for the public to consume. Based on the presumption that equal opportunities for all women are a reality.