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050 00 $aHQ1190.5.U6$bD46 1995
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100 1 $aDenfeld, Rene.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94055876
245 14 $aThe new Victorians :$ba young woman's challenge to the old feminist order /$cRene Denfeld.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bWarner Books,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $a339 . ;$c24 cm
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505 0 $aPt. I. Sexual Purity. 1. The Antiphallic Campaign: Male Bashing and Sexual Politics. 2. Victim Mythology: Rape and the Feminist Agenda. 3. Dirty Pictures: The Feminist Fight Against Pornography -- Pt. II. The Moral Pedestal. 4. The Goddess Within: The New Feminist Religion. 5. Overthrowing the Patriarchy: The Feminist Utopian Vision. 6. The Passive Voice: Inertia Instead of Action -- Pt. III. The New Victorians. 7. Repeating History: The Feminist Descent into Victorian Morality. 8. Why Young Women Are Abandoning the Movement. 9. The Final Wave: Reclaiming Feminism.
520 $aWhy do so many young women who believe strongly in equal rights refuse to call themselves feminists? Does feminism's counterproductive obsession with date rape, pornography, and goddess religions alienate young women - and lead the movement toward a dangerous alliance with the religious right? Is the agenda of today's women's movement uncomfortably similar to a Victorian crusade for repression?
520 8 $aRene Denfeld, a young woman born a year after the foundation of the National Organization for Women, says feminist leaders are out of touch. In the movement's latest obsessions, Denfeld finds a complete reversal of the movement's progress made since the 1970s. This decade's hypersensitive feminist - fearful, disillusioned, and adamantly anti-male - bears a strong resemblance to the dainty, sheltered, chaste Victorian lady of a century ago.
520 8 $aAnd this is why, Denfeld says, young women are abandoning the feminist movement.
520 8 $aRene Denfeld cuts to the roots of the Anti-Phallic campaign, male bashing, and sexual politics; victim Mythology. Why date rape has become an excuse to blame men, and excuses women from responsibility regarding their sexual choices; the Anti-Pornography Crusade.
520 8 $aHow anti-pornography activists teach that sex is something decent feminists should not discuss; and goddess worship, or why new feminist visions of religion are a throwback to the Victorian view that women are by nature morally superior to men - and how this keeps women weak. Offering realistic alternatives to ideologically rigid and sometimes ridiculous doctrine, The New Victorians is a rallying cry for young women to take back feminism - and be proud of it.
650 0 $aFeminist theory$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103673
650 0 $aFeminism$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008120308
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