![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It points out the political differences between groups and individual feminists, challenging the notion that radical feminism denotes a monolithic set of theories and strategies. Although it focuses on radical feminism, it does the important work of separating that particular set of politics from the liberal, socialist, and cultural strands of feminism that were developing both contemporaneously with and immediately after radical feminism. Although Daring to Be Bad was written before what we now call the third wave of feminism, it offers an important corrective to these tendencies on the part of third-wave feminists. It's sadly common for present-day feminists to paint second-wave feminism as a monolithic movement, and to reduce second-wave feminism, in all its complexity, to a series of failures and examples of shortsightedness (though, to be fair, Echols points out that radical feminists of the second wave did the same thing to first-wave feminists). ![]()
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