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| | Description | Feminism isn't dead. It just isn't very cool anymore. Enter Full Frontal Feminism, a book that embodies the forward-looking messages that author Jessica Valenti propagates on her popular website, Feministing.com.
Covering a range of topics, including pop culture, health, reproductive rights, violence, education, relationships, and more, Valenti provides young women a primer on why feminism matters.
Valenti knows better than anyone that young women need a smart-ass book that deals with real-life issues in a style they can relate to. No rehashing the same old issues. No belaboring where today's young women have gone wrong. Feminism should be something young women feel comfortable with, something they can own. Full Frontal Feminism is sending out the message to readers — yeah, you're feminists, and that's actually pretty frigging cool. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | Jessica Valenti | | Paperback: | 288 pages | | Publisher: | Seal Press | | Publication Date: | April 17, 2007 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1580052010 | | Product Length: | 8.24 inches | | Product Width: | 5.56 inches | | Product Height: | 0.81 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.8 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.19 inches | | Package Width: | 5.51 inches | | Package Height: | 0.87 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.84 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 77 reviews |
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273 of 342 found the following review helpful:
 Feminist Review blog on FFF Apr 27, 2007
By Elevate Difference
"Elevate Difference"
Jessica Valenti is a part of the feminist blogger elite, and for good reason. The blog that she was part of establishing, Feministing.com, gets a lot of traffic and is well-known among internet savvy, young, hip feminists. Full disclosure: I read Feministing on a somewhat regular basis. Having read Valenti's writing on the blog - which tends to be oversimplified and, quite frankly, bratty - I was hoping her analysis in book form would show at least a tad more depth. Unfortunately for Valenti, there's a downside to fame; it opens you up for public criticism.
If Full Frontal Feminism is supposed to be the spark that ignites young women to identify as feminists and hop on the movement train, then women are in deep trouble. Valenti writes like a feminist version of Ann Coulter, and let's face it, Ann Coulter is hardly known for her intelligence. Flamboyant and egotistical, much of Valenti's commentary is trite, at best. She makes sweeping generalizations ("When you're a feminist, day to day life is better. You make better decisions. You have better sex."), repeatedly calls her opponents juvenile names [...], confuses "truth" with "opinion," and has apparently done very little actual research to prove her claims, as there is little to no citation of her assertions. At times, she doesn't feel the need to make an assertion at all, responding to the opposition with a facile yet grandiose "Puke," a deliberately ironic "Yeah" or a pithy and useless "Terrifying", as though she has made her case. And despite hackneyed attempts every now and again to mention other marginalized groups, the truth is that this book overwhelmingly reflects the viewpoint of its white, middle class, (primarily, if not entirely) heterosexual, entitled, American, liberal feminist writer.
Valenti doesn't give her readers credit that they can do the thing she most wants them to do: think, analyze, and be critical. This is apparent in the fallacious style by which she presents her perspectives. My personal favorite - taken straight from the right wing, talk radio instruction manual - is when Valenti uses the "straw man," a common misleading bait-and-switch tactic, to "prove" her point (e.g., contending that anti-abortion advocates simply hate sex). A close second is when she uses the most extreme cases as though they weren't the exception to the rule (e.g., making the case for all women to have access to Emergency Contraception because rape victims should have access to it).
Perhaps Valenti believes that young women won't be moved unless they're completely scared to death. Fear is a powerful motivator, but it belittles the audience in the process. Oh, and did I mention that she uses the book as a forum to talk public trash about petty tiffs she's had with other bloggers? If fear doesn't sell you on feminism, apparently Valenti believes taking her side in some inane, personal dispute will.
Full Frontal Feminism is written in sound bytes, each chapter being comprised of smaller (usually) page-long explanations of a given issue: sex education vs. abstinence only, virginity pledges, expensive weddings, unattainable beauty standards, and other typical feminist fare. Apparently, the television has taken its toll (or so Valenti thinks) on the public because there is no sense of organization or logic to the structure of the book. And solutions? Those must have been left for someone else to tackle because you won't find them here, at least not outside of the standard volunteer, give money, and vote.
Now I know I've pretty much run this book into the ground, but I do want to say that I get what Valenti is trying to do here. And it's a really smart idea. She wants to reach out to young women who don't yet identify as feminists and let them know that it's okay, cool even, to be down with the F-word. She wants to tell them that they already believe in feminist ideals and have benefited from the women's movement. She wants to encourage them to continue in that tradition and kick some misogynist ass. That's a really honorable goal that, unfortunately, was a victim of poor execution.
If you're truly looking to find out why feminism matters, you'd be better served to flip to the booklist in the back of Full Frontal Feminism and read some of the titles listed there - including Colonize This!, Listen Up: Voices from the Next Generation, To Be Real, and The Fire This Time - because cool packaging is really great, but if there's nothing of substance inside then what you are selling is just the packaging.
Written by Mandy Van Deven
51 of 65 found the following review helpful:
Wow, what a disappointment. Jul 15, 2009
By lynna2000
So... I kinda hate this book. I am young, feminist, type and thought I'd give this book a shot for an easy read but I cannot finish it. The jist of it is the author stating a perceived slight to women and then saying, "wow, that is really sucky right? stupid anti-sex white men telling us what to do." There is no analysis, no measured reasoning. She also has a propensity for using the lazy technique of only stating the most extreme opposing viewpoint.
I actually agree with most of the tenets of this book but the way that the author presents them infuriated me. The book is supposed to be a primer for young women who would like to learn more about feminism but as a young woman, I was offended that Valenti didn't seem to think I was bright enough to read rationale behind the ideas and would blindly follow her. Big thumbs down.
16 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 An Example of How Not To Get People To Agree With You Jan 02, 2010
By S. Kundo
"S. Kundo"
While Valenti does provide good information in this book. I feel at times she does cross the border into being discriminatory towards certain people. For example, she refers to the Quiverfull religious movement as "wacky." I am a young feminist. However, I do not feel that calling a religion "wacky" is going to earn you any points. That's offensive. Whether you agree with it or not, that is their religion and people do have a choice to have one, which one to have, or to not be religious at all. I truly feel that if you want people to be more open-minded, then, you have to be open-minded as well. I also agree with another reviewer who said that she confuses truth with opinion more than once in this book. She does have a tendency to be rather immature regarding people who disagree with her.
I also agree with the reviewer when they said, "Valenti doesn't give her readers credit that they can do the thing she most wants them to do: think, analyze, and be critical. This is apparent in the fallacious style by which she presents her perspectives. My personal favorite - taken straight from the right wing, talk radio instruction manual - is when Valenti uses the "straw man," a common misleading bait-and-switch tactic, to "prove" her point (e.g., contending that anti-abortion advocates simply hate sex)." I couldn't have said that better. That is exactly how I feel. Now, I am pro-choice. I do not entirely agree with abortion, but I do believe that every woman should be able to make that choice for themselves. Do I hate sex? Hell no. Do my opinions on abortion make me against same-sex marriages (which she also implies you will be against if you don't agree with abortion)? Again, a resounding, hell no.
She makes a lot of unfair generalizations towards people she doesn't agree with, and I'm not okay with that. She is of the opinion that women don't actually want to stay at home and take care of their children, but instead a stay-at-home mom has just been filled with all of these ideas that men are more superior and should be the breadwinners. Sorry Stay-at-home Moms! She fails to realize that some women do actually want to be at home with their children, and not because their significant others or society makes them feel this way. And there ARE stay-at-home dads, as well, even though she fails to mention that and says something along the lines of, "If staying at home with the kids is so great, why aren't men doing it?" Again, just because it's something she doesn't agree with, it's crazy.
I'm not going to say don't read this book. I think that you should read it and form your own opinion on it, but I will say that it made me angrier as I read it. She does make a few valid points ... in an immature, filled-with-generalizations way.
85 of 115 found the following review helpful:
 Good book for emerging feminists May 08, 2007
By Amanda Marcotte
"amanda panda"
Casually written book that does a great job of reaching out to young women who may not think of themselves as feminists. The casual tone can be a tad deceptive, because the book is absolutely stuffed full of information about the current state of feminism, the current state of sexism, and why feminism is still relevant and why any young woman with a reasonable amount of self-respect should embrace it. Jessica makes the case for being a feminist not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it's personally important, and she draws on a number of personal anecdotes to show how often a little feminist theory can help you navigate many a personal situation where you might otherwise find yourself making decisions you won't like. The book drives home how feminism isn't some airy academic pursuit, but a social justice movement that goes right to the root of things in your daily life.
I see the book getting slipped into a lot of high school graduation gift baskets, since it's perfect for that. With all the anxiety about young women and early independence in college ramping up--especially the fear of the dangers of sexual experimentation and the feminist fears that the pressure to live for boys will overwhelm girls' internal need to live for themselves--this book really comes at a good time. Jessica addresses these issue for what they are, and doesn't engage in moralistic finger-wagging, far from it. She gives good, self-affirming advice to young women about the importance of feminism to help stiffen your backbone to face the onslaught of pressure on you to live a self-denying existence.
25 of 33 found the following review helpful:
Great Primer Sep 28, 2007
By J. Aragon
"Feminist Educator"
This book is one of many new books on the market that offer a primer on feminisms. I found this book just as interesting as Megan Seely's book.
Valenti offers a strong foray into a preliminary history of feminisms in the US. Her writing is clean and at times sarcastic, which I enjoyed for the most part. There are certain sections where I felt she needed to expand on some points to give a clearer view of the issue.
The audience for this book is a lay audience or university audience new to feminism or women's studies.
I found that the list of sources at the end of the book to be the most useful. However, I do think that Seely's information at the end of each chapter was more helpful for someone new to feminisms.
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