“Why isn’t everyone a Feminist?” : Feminism and Anti-Feminism in the 21st Century
“Why isn’t every woman a feminist?”
- Sandra Lee Bartky
In her essay, “Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power,” Bartky has portrayed, through one question, the entirety of the problem that plagues feminism today. To add to it, why isn’t every man a feminist, too? A movement aiming to empower women and allow them to have an equal, social, political and economic footing as that of men, has garnered so much negative attention in the last some decades, that we are forced to ask if feminism has lost its way. It is not so much the movement that has become wayward, but the attitude towards it, the constant misunderstanding that has made people
“Why isn’t every woman a feminist?”
- Sandra Lee Bartky
In her essay, “Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power,” Bartky has portrayed, through one question, the entirety of the problem that plagues feminism today. To add to it, why isn’t every man a feminist, too? A movement aiming to empower women and allow them to have an equal, social, political and economic footing as that of men, has garnered so much negative attention in the last some decades, that we are forced to ask if feminism has lost its way. It is not so much the movement that has become wayward, but the attitude towards it, the constant misunderstanding that has made people