Fight Like a Girl is a much-needed primer and call to action for the next generation of feminist activists. In this regressive cultural climate, it's more important than ever to speak loudly and proudly about the work we're doing and what still needs to be done. So, I read this book, and I read Clem's anger, and I thought 'yeah, but no wants to hear this! No one gives a shit!' Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, co-authors of Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future From negative body image, to slut shaming, abortions, female pleasure, mental health and rape culture, Clementine Ford broaches these topics loudly, honestly and unapologetically. While her commentary at times may veer towards seemingly personal vendettas or lean towards the scale of moderately and incredibly offensive, one thing is for sure - women since the dawn of time have been treated like secondary citizens with double standards and it's time to stand up for ourselves. I won a signed copy and a t-shirt for asking a question that was read on a live Facebook event. I listened to this via audiobook and I loved it as it was narrated by Ford herself (she's quite good).

Fight Like A Girl is possibly one of the best collections of profiles I have read in awhile. From the beginning of modern feminism to present day, Barcella covers a wide variety of women who have made a serious impact on the western world and on feminism. An incendiary debut taking the world by storm, Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be. Make no mistake; Clementine Ford is a change-maker. She’s undoubtedly responsible for introducing feminism to a generation of women who couldn’t quite get behind their mothers’ Germaine Greer adoration, and she’s been at the forefront of the scarily evolving online dangers and abuse aimed at women … Clementine is up there with; Roxane Gay, Lena Dunham, Caitlin Moran, Anita Sarkeesian, Lindy West, Laurie Penny, Margaret Cho, Amber Rose, and so many more firebrand feminists who have taken the modern movement and made it work for them. And if I’m being absolutely honest – I wouldn’t know half those women mentioned above if not for reading Clementine’s columns these last few years, which started conversations for me, and within me … and this book will do the exact same thing for a lot of people. It will make them question everything, even themselves – men and women, boys and girls, non-binary – there is something in this book for everyone. Personal, inspiring and courageous, Fight Like A Girl is an essential manifesto for feminists new, old and soon-to-be. The book is a call-to-arms for women to rediscover the fury that has been suppressed by a society that, despite best efforts, still considers feminism to be a threat.

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Fight Like A Girl is fuelled by Ford’s clear-eyed defiance and refusal to compromise, and by her powerful combination of personal testimony and political polemic. In the vein of Caitlin Moran’s How to be a Woman or Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist.’ And yes, Clementine Ford is pissed. It is infuriating to try to live one’s life in the middle of a flurry of double-standards, of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” choices – all the while watching the empirical evidence of the rigged game piling up but being often ignored or dismissed. It’s not just infuriating, it’s exhausting, too. And because she talks about it, loudly, she has to endure hate mail by the metric ton. I'd be pissed, too. In this book, she discusses body-image, rape culture, internalized misogyny, sex, activism and many other things that need to be an ongoing dialogue if we are honest about wanting equality.

Australian women are nearly three times more likely than men to experience violence from an intimate partner. Seely dispels the notion that there are secrets to successful organizing by creating a step by step, compelling manual that challenges even the cynical I also loved how much it discussed the impact that being noticed - and wanting to be noticed -by men can impact on women's attitudes and personalities. Don't be too loud, don't be too shy, don't be too prudish, don't be too slutty or men won't want you. Like many other feminists, young Clementine was your typical girl, brought up in a loving family, together with her older sister and brother. She couldn't quite find her place in the world, being a chubby girl (I know the biggest crime of them all!), until she became a teenager who decided "to take control" by becoming anorexic and bulimic. Interestingly enough, but not unusual, nobody in the family noticed, she was getting lots of compliments for losing that weight to become attractive. Her parents were loving and quite enlightened by comparison, still, they weren't perfect. The mixed messages we give girls, the ever-changing goalposts of what it means to be attractive, of what's acceptable and not acceptable. Just think of how we were parented and how we parent our boys and girls: for the girls - be nice and kind, make yourself pretty, cute, followed by don't go out at night, don't show too much leg, wear a bra, wear girly clothes, of course, not too revealing we don't want people to call/think you a slut. Shave your underarms, shave your legs (why is it so different for men?). The boys are mostly left to be themselves, go explore, be conquerors, be a leader, assertive, encouraged to go after what they want etc. Online sensation and fearless feminist heroine, Clementine Ford is a beacon of hope and inspiration to thousands of women and girls. In the wake of Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo campaign, Ford uses a mixture of memoir, opinion and investigative journalism to expose just how unequal the world continues to be for women.Fight Like a girl is exactly the kind of books that you want to start with in your quest for Feminist Books . It's Feminism 101 par excellence and precisely the sort of books that I have been wanting to read for a long time . All these resources from the women, books, art, music, I would have LOVED an actual list of their material so it would be easier to find. The bibliography in the end lists the resources the author used, I’m talking about a separate list with the feminists’ own work, now I have to google for myself (yeah I know, minor issue…)