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The Morning after: Sex, Fear, and Feminism (Hardcover)
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When Katie Roiphe arrived at Harvard in the fall of 1986, she found
that the feminism she had been raised to believe in had been
radically transformed. The women's movement, which had once
signaled such strength and courage, now seemed lodged in a
foundation of weakness and fear. At Harvard, and later as a
graduate student at Princeton, Roiphe saw a thoroughly new
phenomenon taking shape on campus: the emergence of a culture
captivated by victimization, and of a new bedroom politics in the
university, cloaked in outdated assumptions about the way men and
women experience sex. Men were the silencers and women the
silenced, and if anyone thought differently no one was saying so.
Twenty-four-year-old Katie Roiphe is the first of her generation to
speak out publicly against the intolerant turn the women's movement
has taken, and in The Morning After she casts a critical eye on
what she calls the mating rituals of a rape-sensitive community.
From Take Back the Night marches (which Roiphe terms "march as
therapy" and "rhapsodies of self-affirmation") to rape-crisis
feminists and the growing campus concern with sexual harassment,
Roiphe shows us a generation of women whose values are strikingly
similar to those their mothers and grandmothers fought so hard to
escape from - a generation yearning for regulation, fearful of its
sexuality, and animated by a nostalgia for days of greater social
control. At once a fierce excoriation of establishment feminism and
a passionate call to our best instincts, The Morning After sounds a
necessary alarm and entreats women of all ages to take stock of
where they came from and where they want to go.
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