Contents

ONE

How feminism became today’s dirtiest word

1    We’ve got a long way to go, baby: Confronting the dangerous myth that we’ve made it

2    Feminists eat their young: The fourth wave, a fractured sisterhood, and the cataclysmic divide between feminist generations

3    F-bomb generation: Empowerment, millennial women, and the “I’m not a feminist, but…” choir

TWO

On the front lines of the new women-on-women gender wars

4    How a feMRA is made: In conversation with the leaders of today’s rising women-led anti-feminist movement

5    The domestic wife: The problem with retro revival, the new motherhood, and the glamorization of pre-feminist gender roles

6    One at the top, five million at the bottom: How we sold ourselves the equal-opportunity lie and grew the violent push to keep women out of the workforce

7    It’s your fault: How anti-feminists narrowed the definition of rape and revived the deadly, viral culture of slut shaming and victim blaming

8    Teen spirit: Clinic closures, access attacks, and the pro-woman rebranding of today’s anti-abortion activists

THREE

The future is feminist

9    Reason for hope: The young women and girls who are giving misogyny the middle finger

10  Defining the new feminism: How we can harness the discord and create a better feminism for the future

      Epilogue

      Acknowledgments