9781553650010_cover Enlarge Cover
0 of 5
0 ratings
rated!
rated!
list price: $22.95
edition:Paperback
category: Social Science
published: Apr 2004
ISBN:9781553650010
publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
imprint: Greystone Books

Big Sister

How Extreme Feminism Has Betrayed the Fight for Sexual Equality

by Neil Boyd

tagged: gender studies
Description

For more than a decade, the destructive and dishonest ideology of radical feminism has flourished in North America.

In this provocative book, Neil Boyd argues that a new wave of self-described extreme feminists have been remarkably successful in reworking criminal and family law and thus transforming the rules of sexual conduct and our notions of fairness and equality, as well as undermining a socially valuable feminism. Boyd describes how U.S. radical feminists Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin have been instrumental in changing Canada's obscenity law, shatters the various myths about domestic violence, and illuminates some disturbing truths behind sexual assault and sexual harrassment in today's society.

Backed up by extensive research and illustrated by stories that are chilling, Big Sister shows how extremists have changed the law in ways that threaten free speech, bring a code of Puritanism to male-female relationships, alter common-sense understandings of sexual consent, infantilize women, and jeopardize gender relations.

About the Author

Neil Boyd

Out of print

This edition is not currently available in bookstores. Check your local library or search for used copies at Abebooks.

X
Contacting facebook
Please wait...