i don’t agree with how schulte equates real feminism with slutwalk. otherwise this is a great article.
… for corporate media mouthpieces like [Time magazine], the debates raised over books like Sandberg’s represent another chapter in what they see as a “post-feminist” era–a time and place decades removed from the women’s movement, in which women are now struggling just to be women, balancing the pressures of work and family and dealing with the resulting dilemmas that the movement of the 1960s supposedly never prepared them for.
The media drumbeat about this “post-feminist” era is filled with articles and books with titles like “The Mommy Wars” or “Opt-Out Generation.” They rarely address the concerns of the vast majority of women who are a part of the working class. And they almost never address the ways that the women’s movement of the 1960s was, in fact, a very good thing–and not a problem–for women.
They measure the success of women at large by the success stories of a few corporate executives or political officials at the top–and argue that these examples of “having it all” will eventually trickle down to all women.
The inevitable focus of these articles and books is what women can do personally to succeed.
The answers they provide are insufficient for working-class women who are nowhere near the glass ceiling. And for that matter, they don’t even do much to address the issues facing women at the top–because they ignore the institutional gender inequality that is at the heart of U.S. society. (Elizabeth Schulte)
More here.