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Demyth-ifying Feminism: Reclaiming the “F” Word

Demyth-ifying Feminism: Reclaiming the “F” Word

Mary Kirk
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 36
ISBN13: 9781599047867|ISBN10: 1599047861|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616924942|EISBN13: 9781599047881
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-786-7.ch001
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Mary Kirk. "Demyth-ifying Feminism: Reclaiming the “F” Word." Gender and Information Technology: Moving Beyond Access to Co-Create Global Partnership, IGI Global, 2009, pp.1-36. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-786-7.ch001

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M. Kirk (2009). Demyth-ifying Feminism: Reclaiming the “F” Word. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-786-7.ch001

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Mary Kirk. "Demyth-ifying Feminism: Reclaiming the “F” Word." In Gender and Information Technology: Moving Beyond Access to Co-Create Global Partnership. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2009. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-786-7.ch001

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Abstract

One barrier to more people understanding the work of feminist scholars is a fallacious view of “feminism” that has transformed an entire area of scholarship into the “F” word. The term itself (as well as the purpose of feminist movement) is poorly understood, and in most cases misunderstood, even in academic circles. In Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics, renowned cultural critic and feminist theorist bell hooks (2000) describes her experience of conversing with people about her work. Although most people are excited to ask questions about her work as a cultural critic of mass media since they participate in popular culture, hooks describes how the tone of the conversation typically changes when she mentions feminism: I tend to hear all about the evil of feminism and the bad feminists: how ‘they’ hate men; how ‘they’ want to go against nature—and god; how ‘they’ are all lesbians; how ‘they’ are taking all the jobs and making the world hard for White men, who do not stand a chance. (hooks, 2000, p. vii)

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