The Fire This Time
Young Activists and the New Feminism
Published on 18. May 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-385-72102-8 (ISBN)
Description
Young feminists today are becoming activists on behalf of many causes beyond the classic—and indispensable--feminist ones of reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. In The Fire This Time, Dawn Martin, one of four founders of The Third Wave Foundation--a multiracial, multi-issue, and multicultural activist organization--and Vivien Labaton, its first executive director, offer an exciting cross section of feminist voices that express new directions in activism, identity, and thought. Ayana Bird dissects the role of black women in hip-hop; Joshua Breitbart and Ana Noguiera demonstrate how Indimedia can break the hold of the corporate media over the news; and Jennifer Bleyer reviews the exhilarating power unleashed by the GirlZine movement. Anna Kirkland's analysis of transsexual and transgendered people and the law is deeply thoughtful, and Shireen Lee's piece on women, technology, and feminism envisions empowering prospects for women..
Ranging from media and culture to politics and globalization, The Fire This Time is a call to new frontiers of activism, and helps reinvent feminism for a new generation.
Ranging from media and culture to politics and globalization, The Fire This Time is a call to new frontiers of activism, and helps reinvent feminism for a new generation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-385-72102-8 (9780385721028)
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06/2009
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Persons
Edited by Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin
Content
Foreword: We Are Using This Power to Resist
REBECCA WALKER
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Introduction: Making What Will Become
VIVIEN LABATON AND DAWN LUNDY MARTIN
PART I CHANGING MINDS AND EYES: MEDIA AND CULTURE
Claiming Jezebel: Black Female Subjectivity and Sexual Expression in Hip-Hop
AYANA BYRD
An Independent Media Center of One’s Own: A Feminist Alternative to Corporate Media
JOSHUA BREITBART AND ANA NOGUEIRA
Cut-and-Paste Revolution: Notes from the Girl Zine Explosion
JENNIFER BLEYER
Can You Rock It Like This? Theater for a New Century
HOLLY BASS
The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and Feminism
SHIREEN LEE
PART II NEW ACTIVISM IN THE GLOBAL CITY
Exporting Violence: The School of the Americas, U.S. Intervention in Latin America, and Resistance
KATHRYN TEMPLE
Domestic Workers Organize in the Global City
AI-JEN POO AND ERIC TANG
A Baptism by Fire: Vieques, Puerto Rico
ELISHA MARÍA MIRANDA
When Transgendered People Sue and Win: Feminist Reflections on Strategy, Activism, and the Legal Process
ANNA KIRKLAND
Bearing the Blame: Gender, Immigration, Reproduction, and the Environment
SYD LINDSLEY
She Who Believes in Freedom: Young Women Defy the Prison Industrial Complex
ROBIN TEMPLETON
Afterword
Looking Ahead: Building a Feminist Future
VIVIEN LABATON AND DAWN LUNDY MARTIN
Coda
WILMA MANKILLER
Recommended Organizations
Notes
Acknowledgments
REBECCA WALKER
]
Introduction: Making What Will Become
VIVIEN LABATON AND DAWN LUNDY MARTIN
PART I CHANGING MINDS AND EYES: MEDIA AND CULTURE
Claiming Jezebel: Black Female Subjectivity and Sexual Expression in Hip-Hop
AYANA BYRD
An Independent Media Center of One’s Own: A Feminist Alternative to Corporate Media
JOSHUA BREITBART AND ANA NOGUEIRA
Cut-and-Paste Revolution: Notes from the Girl Zine Explosion
JENNIFER BLEYER
Can You Rock It Like This? Theater for a New Century
HOLLY BASS
The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and Feminism
SHIREEN LEE
PART II NEW ACTIVISM IN THE GLOBAL CITY
Exporting Violence: The School of the Americas, U.S. Intervention in Latin America, and Resistance
KATHRYN TEMPLE
Domestic Workers Organize in the Global City
AI-JEN POO AND ERIC TANG
A Baptism by Fire: Vieques, Puerto Rico
ELISHA MARÍA MIRANDA
When Transgendered People Sue and Win: Feminist Reflections on Strategy, Activism, and the Legal Process
ANNA KIRKLAND
Bearing the Blame: Gender, Immigration, Reproduction, and the Environment
SYD LINDSLEY
She Who Believes in Freedom: Young Women Defy the Prison Industrial Complex
ROBIN TEMPLETON
Afterword
Looking Ahead: Building a Feminist Future
VIVIEN LABATON AND DAWN LUNDY MARTIN
Coda
WILMA MANKILLER
Recommended Organizations
Notes
Acknowledgments