Alison Dahl Crossley

The contemporary tactics of millennial feminists who are part of an active movement for social change In 2014, after a young man murdered six students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then killed himself, the news provoked an eye-opening surge of feminist activism. Fueled by the wide circulation of the killer’s hateful manifesto and his desire to exact “revenge” upon young women, feminists online and offline around the world clamored for a halt to such acts of misogyny. Despite the widespread belief that feminism is out-of-style or dead, this mobilization of young women fighting against gender oppression was overwhelming. In Finding Feminism, Alison Dahl Crossley analyzes feminist activists at three different U.S. colleges, revealing that feminism is alive on campuses, but is complex, nuanced, and context-dependent. Young feminists are carrying the torch of the movement, despite a climate that is not always receptive to their claims. These feminists are engaged in social justice organizing in unexpected contexts and spaces, such as multicultural sororities, student government, and online. Sharing personal stories of their everyday experiences with inequality, the young women in Finding Feminism employ both traditional and innovative feminist tactics. They use the Internet and social media as a tool for their activism—what Alison Dahl Crossley calls ‘Facebook Feminism.’ The university, as an institution, simultaneously aids and constrains their fight for gender equality. Offering a stunning and hopeful portrait of today’s young feminist leaders, Finding Feminism provides insight into the contemporary feminist movement in America.

Millennial Activists and the Unfinished Gender Revolution

Finding Feminism

Leila J. Rupp

Verta Taylor

Nancy E. Whittier

Feminist Frontiers, eleventh edition, is an intersectional, and interdisciplinary introduction to the field of women's, gender, and sexuality studies. Featuring both classic readings and cutting-edge feminist writings on urgent and timely topics, it offers a comprehensive framework for analyzing gender, society, and culture. Organized into seven parts, the book opens with the foundations of feminism, including definitions of gender and sex, the concept of privilege, and the complexities of intersectional feminist research. The book then introduces students to key readings in culture and socialization; sex, families, and relationships; bodies; work; violence; and closes with a set of readings on feminist activism. Section-opening introductions introduce key ideas and encourage students to think both critically and self-reflexively before beginning the unit, while introductions to each reading offer further context. Discussion questions foster engaging classroom conversations and encourage readers to apply concepts from the book to their own lives. Combining research articles with shorter essays, blogs, and other online writings written by academics and well-known feminist intellectuals, the book offers multiple levels of entry that meet the needs of students with varied backgrounds and learning styles. The eleventh edition features twenty-nine new readings to showcase all of today's most important issues. New to this edition: · Twenty-nine new selections offer both up-to-date research on previously explored topics as well as new inclusions responding to current attacks on women, people of color, and LBGTQ+ communities · Expanded range of topics in the section “Violence” explore interpersonal violence as well as collective violence faced by many groups today · Article summaries at the beginning of each chapter, bookended with an increased number of discussion questions, supplement reading and deepen engagement with the material · Updated seven-part structure offers instructors a compact-yet thorough-organization for a course.

Readings on Gender, Sexuality, and Society

Feminist Frontiers

The contemporary tactics of millennial feminists who are part of an active movement for social change. In 2014, after a young man murdered six students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then killed himself, the news provoked an eye-opening surge of feminist activism. Fueled by the wide circulation of the killer’s hateful manifesto and his desire to exact “revenge” upon young women, feminists online and offline around the world clamored for a halt to such acts of misogyny. Despite the widespread belief that feminism is out-of-style or dead, this mobilization of young women fighting against gender oppression was overwhelming. In Finding Feminism, Alison Dahl Crossley analyzes feminist activists at three different U.S. colleges, revealing that feminism is alive on campuses, but is complex, nuanced, and context-dependent. Young feminists are carrying the torch of the movement, despite a climate that is not always receptive to their claims. These feminists are engaged in social justice organizing in unexpected contexts and spaces, such as multicultural sororities, student government, and online. Sharing personal stories of their everyday experiences with inequality, the young women in Finding Feminism employ both traditional and innovative feminist tactics. They use the Internet and social media as a tool for their activism—what Alison Dahl Crossley calls ‘Facebook Feminism.’ The university, as an institution, simultaneously aids and constrains their fight for gender equality. Offering a stunning and hopeful portrait of today’s young feminist leaders, Finding Feminism provides insight into the contemporary feminist movement in America.

Alison Dahl Crossley

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