We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
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We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
On the wings of market-friendly feminism, the idea that personal advancement is a subversive form of political progress has been accepted as gospel. The trickiest thing about this idea is that it is incomplete and insufficient without being entirely wrong.
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she also represented something far bigger and deeper: the idea that, in every aspect of our lives, we deserved better than the take-it-or-leave-it outputs of establishment power. Getting what we wanted - and getting the best deal - had become a virtue. Innovation would lead to progress and well-being, and since consumer demand would drive innovatio
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