Just finished Full Frontal Feminism by Jessica Valenti. I read this book cover to cover (how else do you read a book?).
The author uses a conversational technique, woven with swear words and gramatical errors, to discuss issues of gender inequality in the US. She’s funny, honest, and real. It was a refreshing non-academic approach to reviving the feminist movement and convincing young women that the battle is not over.
An excerpt from the chapter “My Big Fat Unnecessary Wedding and Other Dating Diseases”:
For the life of me, I will never understand why a woman today would change her last name. It makes no sense whatsoever. You want future kids to have the same last name as you and your hubby? Hyphenate, bitch! Or do something, anything, but change your last name. It epitomizes the idea that you are not your own preson.
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April 5, 2008 at 8:14 pm
I’m not fighting to change one’s last name, I’ll clearly never do it - but to hyphenate is just painful. Let’s use my sister for example.
Had she chosen to hyphenate: Laukkanen-Raskauskas.
Her daughters: Laukkanen-Raskauskas-Newname
Her children would be 10 by the time they learned to spell thier own names! A name like that is just punishment.
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