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Title	:	The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order
Author	:	Rene Denfeld
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	March 14th 1995 by Grand Central Publishing
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Feminism. Womens Studies. Sociology. Gender

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Journalist Rene Denfeld explains why her generation has become alienated from the women's movement, maintaining that the actions of the movement's current leadership have actually encouraged a return to the kind of sexual repression and political powerlessness challenged by feminists in the 1970s. Here she offers a practial battle plan which includes confronting the issues of child care and birth control, working for equal government representation, and treating sexual assault as a serious crime.

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Original Title:	The New Victorians: A Young Woman's Challenge to the Old Feminist Order
ISBN:	0446517526 (ISBN13: 9780446517522)
Edition Language:	English

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informative is somewhat dated

My first introduction to feminism at 14, it shaped my views for many years and probably continues to. Just as the title implies, Denfeld sees feminism in the 90s as a throwback to the Victorian idealization of women, an idealization that separated and oppressed women by positing them as morally superior to men. It's a convincing argument, and I took it to heart, maybe asking too few questions about what the author claimed. While rereading it at 18, a feminist friend of mine read it, too, and

A brilliant lambasting of the excesses of 90's-style "difference" feminism from a refreshingly liberal point of view. Denfeld suggests that the failure to pass the Equal Rights Amendment in 1982 began a process that eventually led some feminists down a path of excess, and others out of the movement (and this largely left feminism to the extremists). Denfeld's main point is a compelling comparison between these radical feminists, (with their moral crusades against men, sex, and pornography, and

Rene Denfeld is the bestselling author of THE CHILD FINDER, THE ENCHANTED and thee THE BUTTERFLY GIRL, which Margaret Atwood raved on twitter is "a heartbreaking, finger-gnawing, yet ultimately hopeful novel."Rene's poetic fiction has won numerous awards including the French Prix, an ALA Medal for Excellence and an IMPAC listing. Rene works as an investigator, including exonerating innocents fromPerhaps the single most important feminist tome I've read...mostly because I read it when I was seeking to put words to my staunchly feminist beliefs while seeking to distance myself from the Dworkinite-era 2nd wave that had been so prominent in the 80s. This book condemns the culture of victimhood, which was something that desperately needed to be said.

Bits were actually decent, but whenever I got optimistic, Denfeld would quote something wildly out of context, distort and simplify or at the least argue with an inexistent opponent. That said, I think some of her critique could have been useful at the time of writing (even if now it seems quite obvious).

I read this about eight years ago when I was a teenager and, although it was dated even then, it has many virtues and is well-written. Denfield supplies clear and thought-provoking analyses of both first and second-wave feminism. She succinctly explains and expands on the short-comings of certain feminist ideals, and isn't afraid to harshly critique certain writings from popular feminist authors such as Dworkin and Greer. Well worth the read even now, and it's a shame this book hasn't been as

It was a little repetitive at the 2/3s mark, but otherwise very well written and researched.