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Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism
Author(s): Emma Bernstein (Author), Nona Aronowitz (Author)
- Publisher: Seal Press
- Publication Date: 6 Oct. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 220 pages
- ISBN-10: 1580052738
- ISBN-13: 9781580052733
Book Description
What do young women care about? What are their hopes, worries, and ambitions? Have they heard of feminism, and do they relate to it? These are just a few of the questions journalist Nona Willis Aronowitz and photographer Emma Bee Bernstein set out to answer in Girldrive. In October 2007, Aronowitz and Bernstein took a cross-country road trip to meet with the 127 women profiled in this book, ranging from well-known feminists like Kathleen Hanna, Laura Kipnis, Erica Jong, and Michele Wallace, to women who don’t relate to feminism at all. The result of these interviews, Girldrive is a regional chronicle of the struggles, concerns, successes, and insights of young women who are grappling,just as hard as their mothers and grandmothers did,to find, define, and fight for gender equity.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Girldrive provides a wide-angle snapshot of contemporary feminism, and raises provocative questions about our responsibilities to the movement.” ― Elle.com “Girldrive is gutsy in its endeavor and gives agency to emerging feminist voices … This work’s very publication shows how far you can go if you only have the drive.” ― Bust magazine “A fascinating tour-de-force … [Nona and Emma’s] voices struck me as distinctly young and alive and unapologetic.” ― Courtney Martin of Feministing “Nona and Emma have done what I suspect many women, young and old, have always dreamed of doing: Hit the open road with nothing more than a partner in crime, a full tank of gas, a playlist of good music, a pad of paper, a camera, and an unyielding curiosity. Girldrive is part travel diary, part social document, part art exhibit, and, sadly, part eulogy. Not only do I highly recommend Girldrive, I have to admit that I’m insanely jealous I didn’t think of it first.” ― Anna Holmes, Founder/Editor, Jezebel.com “Girldrive is a fascinating, fiery, dramatic whirlwind tour through modern-day women’s lives. It’s likely to make you excited, impassioned, and at times infuriated–and that’s a good thing. It lets its diversity of opinion speak to you rather than for you.” ― Rachel Kramer Bussel, Editor, Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women; Host, In The Flesh Reading Series
