Enjoy Fire With Fire: New Female Power And How It Will Change The Twenty-First Century Articulated By Naomi Wolf Available As Publication

enjoy Naomi Wolf's writing, It took me awhile to get through this book mainly because the writing is serious, Though this book was written in thes, the content is still extremely relevant, Naomi Wolf deconstructs the feminist movement into the concept of victim feminism versus the concept of power feminism, She discusses women's relationships with one another and with power and how thes sparked a movement among women when Anita Hill spoke out about sexual harassment and Clarence Thomas.
This book caused me to rethink how I have successfully related to other women and if that is because I have mastered the art of "connection" which women are encouraged to focus on instead of healthy competition.
I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in feminism, Although not one of Wolf's more popular books written in, her followup to The Beauty Myth, it is to date my favourite book on feminism.
Wolf disseminates and contrasts two schools of modern feminist thinking patterns: victim feminism and power feminism, The differences can be subtle or stark, and Wolf lists copious examples of each, Unsurprisingly, she favours power feminism, There is one sentence that can summarize the trajectory of the entire book: "It is time to turn outward in a fair and goaloriented way, time to trade preaching to the converted for negotiating with the opposition from a position of strength".


As I read Fire with Fire, I kept thinking how much today's radical feminists need to read it, specifically the ones that use angry, hyperpoliticized messaging victim feminism.
Wolf is controversial and often polarizing amongst feminists though, and many of her arguments in this book would not be wellreceived by young feminists in.
An example: "The other side of the feminist demand for men to learn to listen should be the feminist responsibility for women to learn to speak.
" I suspect some feminists would not want any additional burden placed on themselves to be strong and brave, It's men that need to acquiesce, they might say, Nevertheless, Wolf offers a helpful and useless analysis for men too!,

My favourite theme in the book is Wolf's argument that women need to embrace the market and that the feminist left needs to get over its "reflexive anticapitalism".
Wolf is a liberal and writes that capitalism is inherently exploitative which I disagree with, so I especially appreciate her opening up here.
Again, somefeminists will not be comfortable with this, but Wolf offers some good ideas on how feminists and women can embrace commerce to do good and to set ethical terms of doing business.
In one of her more recent speeches about The End of America I think, she said "money is neutral it's energy".
I agree, and money can be used for social change, My personal brand of feminism is a more libertarian feminism as opposed to big government feminism, so I would like to seefeminists embracing the dollar more Independent Women's Forum is a good example of this.
As I have learned from animal activism, making progress sometimes entails what feels like "sleeping with the enemy",

The books is more thanyears old now, but it is as relevant now, if not more than it was in.
Some things have changed since then, but some things really haven't,

"Power feminism moves mountains with astonishing ease, even as victim feminism spins its wheels over the same manicured ground.
" Membaca tulisan naomi wolf seakan menghadirkan lagi kesan mendalam terhadap kepiawaiannya mengartikulasikan gagasan, Wolf patut mendptkan tempat tersendiri dlm wacana feminisme,bkn sj karena ia tak risih dan canggung menyandang predikat feminis tetapi jg krn upayax mengikis apa yg ia sebut sbg feminis phobia.
Wolf berkeyakinan bhw tdk ada yg salah n tdk ada cacatx mjd feminis dan tdk perlu melakukan pengingkaranhy agar selamay dr tudingan masyarakat.
Menghindar tdk akan menolong pihak lain untuk menerima feminisme secara wajar, I read this book quite a few years ago, and it changed the way I thought about feminism, So much of what was written previous to Fire With Fire was about how women have been victimized, Naomi Wolf turned that attitude on its head with a powerful paradigm shift: As long as we think of ourselves as victims, we remain powerless.
After being so inspired by the Beauty Myth I anxiously awaited Naomi Wolf's next book and this was disappointed,

I saw her interviewed for this book tour and found a disconnect between what she was saying she wanted to achieve with this book and what I read.
The gist is we need to jettison the victim mentality and claim our power, I am all for that, but did not find anything in the book that resonated with that message Excellent book that explains how women could run America in a few years if they wanted to make the effort.
So good I always want to tell everyone on the bus to shut up, right now, and listen to this page I'm reading.
My first feminist book. I loved that she doesn't rant or have angry overtones, Her comments and perspective are supported with facts, newspaper articles and specific examples, leaving the readers to draw their own conclusions.
Reread this after almostyears just to see how much of what Wolf predicted didn't happen, . . I read this in an undergraduate sociology course at Kent State University in the mids and then met the author when she was the guest speaker at one of the school's regional satellite campuses.
I found her and her ideas in Fire with Fire reasonable and approachable, I know contemporary discourse has turned with hostility on straight white feminists, but I have not, I don't remember much of the book other than that enjoyed reading it and talking briefly with her after her speech.
The book has been translated as "Gegar Gender: Kekuasaan Perempuan Menjelang Abad" by Omi Intan Naomi and published by Pustaka Semesta Press in.
Naomi Wolf is my favorite contemporary feminist figure and so I enjoy reading it just like when I read her other books.


The most interesting part of the book I think is part three, "Victim Feminism versus Power Feminism", in which she criticizes " Victim Feminism" who seeks power through an identity of powerlessness for instance, in Indonesia we found a common case when female got problem with male in the street, even if the female is wrong, people will be on her side as long as she shows her powerlessness, for example by crying.
It is a kind of selfcriticism and I like it because a thinker without an ability to selfcriticizing her/himself is not a good thinker I think: we are human and there is nothing called as perfect human.
Required college reading.
: Everyone has an opinion, Buku ini saya baca awal awal masa kuliah, Sangat recomended buat yang sedang mempelajari feminisme, Buat para feminis ini buku yang wajib dibaca, terlepas dari ideologgi Wolf dan pandangannya ttg feminisme, Menurut saya ini buku yang dapat menceritakan fakta dan issue kewanitaan dengan lugas, extraordinary dan bener bener membuka mata kita, The premise of this book is very promising the execution doesn't follow as well, It is a hopeful book, but the writing feels rushed and not nearly as well edited as I would have thought, given The Beauty Myth.
When I read it I thought more highly of it, In retrospect, Wolf has been not very helpful to the work of feminism for some time, bought for daughter A. Great. Book. I. Cannot. Wait. To. Own. Doris In her bestselling book The Beauty Myth, Naomi Wolf sought to change the way in which women see

themselves in relation to their bodies.
Now she focuses on how they see themselves in relation to power,

She argues that the feminist movement has to change if it is to speak to a new generation of women, and that, even as women are gaining more ground than ever before, a wariness of feminist orthodoxies keeps them away from the only movement capable of putting political clout behind their personal success.
The book represents a call to women to throw off centuries of conditioning about the relationship between power and femininity, Not my favorite work by Wolf, but still an interesting collection of essays, A great read for anyone raising a girl, I feel like this book would serve parents better than many parenting books out there.
The author really unpacks the ways boys and girls are socialized so differently in regards to leadership, competition, power and team work, and how this plays out thought adult life.
I'm reading this book as part of the Dangerous Reading Challenge

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Naomi Wolf is the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Beauty Myth, The End of America and Give Me Liberty.
She has toured the world speaking to audiences of all walks of life about gender equality, social justice, and, most recently, the defense of liberty in America and internationally.
She is the cofounder of the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, which teaches ethics and empowerment to young women leaders, and is also a cofounder of the American Freedom Campaign, a grass roots democracy movement in the United States whose mission is the defense of the Constitution and the rule of law.
from sitelink Naomi Wolf is the author of seven books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Beauty Myth, The End of America and Give Me Liberty.
She has toured the world speaking to audiences of all walks of life about gender equality, social justice, and, most recently, the defense of liberty in America and internationally.
She is the cofounder of the Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership, which teaches ethics and empowerment to young women leaders, and is also a cofounder of the American Freedom Campaign, a grass roots democracy movement in the United States whose mission is the defense of the Constitution and the rule of law.
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