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Fire This Time Young Activists and the New Feminism

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ISBN-10: 0385721021

ISBN-13: 9780385721028

Edition: 2004

Authors: Vivien Labaton, Dawn Lundy Martin

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Young feminists today are becoming activists on behalf of many causes beyond the classic—and indispensable--feminist ones of reproductive rights and equal pay for equal work. In The Fire This Time, Dawn Martin, one of four founders of The Third Wave Foundation--a multiracial, multi-issue, and multicultural activist organization--and Vivien Labaton, its first executive director, offer an exciting cross section of feminist voices that express new directions in activism, identity, and thought. Ayana Bird dissects the role of black women in hip-hop; Joshua Breitbart and Ana Noguiera demonstrate how Indimedia can break the hold of the corporate media over the news; and Jennifer Bleyer reviews…    
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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/18/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.01" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Vivien Labaton is a third-year law student at New York University Law School. She was the founding Director of the Third Wave Foundation, the only national young feminist organization in the country, and currently serves on the boards of Third Wave, Political Research Associates, and the Women’s Funding Network. She lives in Brooklyn, New York Dawn Lundy Martin is one of four cofounders of the Third Wave Foundation. She has a long history of activism in anti-war, queer rights, and environmental justice movements. A Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, she is also an award-winning poet and author of the chapbook,The Morning Hour. She lives in…    

Foreword: We Are Using This Power to Resist
Introduction: Making What Will Become
Changing Minds and Eyes: Media and Culture
Claiming Jezebel: Black Female Subjectivity and Sexual Expression in Hip-Hop
An Independent Media Center of One's Own: A Feminist Alternative to Corporate Media Joshua Breitbart
Cut-and-Paste Revolution: Notes from the Girl Zine Explosion
Can You Rock It Like This? Theater for a New Century
The New Girls Network: Women, Technology, and Feminism
New Activism In The Global City
Exporting Violence: The School of the Americas, U.S. Intervention in Latin America, and Resistance
Domestic Workers Organize in the Global City
A Baptism by Fire: Vieques, Puerto Rico
When Transgendered People Sue and Win: Feminist Reflections on Strategy, Activism, and the Legal Process
Bearing the Blame: Gender, Immigration, Reproduction, and the Environment
She Who Believes in Freedom: Young Women Defy the Prison Industrial Complex
Afterword Looking Ahead: Building a Feminist Future
Coda
Recommended Organizations
Notes
Acknowledgments