The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism

By Vivien Labaton

Book Overview

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 ,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385721021
• ISBN13: 9780385721028
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Son's GF couldn't put it down!

Purchased at the recommendation of a friend as a christmas present for son's girlfriend (both politically active twenty-somethings). She couldn't put it down! Now I'm dying to read it myself.

I guess I'm a Feminist . . . I didn't know, but -

I guess I'm a Feminist . . . I didn't know, but - after reading and the re-reading the essays and prose written and in 'The Fire This Time', I found myself reflecting on what it is to be a feminist, and, to review and think about a new definition of what feminism is as oppossed to perhaps the coined phrase 'women's empowerment'. Nevertheless, I am glad this book was written. As a somewhat traditional man - most but not all sterotypes apply, I found after reading various portions of this book a great need to look at myself, my attitudes, and perhaps my vision a bit more carefully. As a writer myself, I think it is the intent of most writers to make an impact on society's participants: well this book has on me. So, girls and boys of all callings, reading this book might just do you a little good. Well done.

Rockin' good book about young feminisms/Third Wave

The Fire This Time is the book that we've been waiting for to counter the misrepresentation of young feminists as apolitical and hapless. Labaton and Lundy have put together a thoughtful anthology that covers all the usual and important topics; however, this anthology reads more authentic than many others. This book is written for a general audience, but will be incredibly useful in the university classroom. I can't say enough positive things about this anthology. This is definitely a stronger book than Catching a Wave. CAW is also a great book, tho.