A Young Woman's Guide To Why Feminism Matter Analysis

Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman's Guide to Why Feminism Matters

Feminism isn’t extinct. It just hasn’t been as popular as it used to be over the past couple decades. Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters, written by Jessica Valenti, teaches the younger generation what feminism is and how cool it is to truly be a feminist. Valenti presents the book in a way that doesn’t harp on old ideas and that the younger generation can relate to. This critical analysis will focus on a brief summary, critical thinking and analysis, application of what was read, and questions to the author. Without a doubt, Valenti did an excellent job showing the readers that feminism has evolved and the importance of being a feminist.

My second question would be; Do you feel that jobs women take on are typically low-paying because women are doing the job, or for other reasons? And in the book you talked about how once women dominated fields are now dominated by men and wages have gone up. Do you feel this is coincidence? My last question to Valenti would be; Why do people have a difficult time identifying with feminism? Would a more universal term be more suited? The reason I would ask the first question is because even though feminism is perceived as a women’s movement, it effects men in our culture as well. I would think that we would want the men in our culture to be as educated about it as women. I would ask this question because I am not sure how we would do this. I would ask the second question because it interests me. Are men considered breadwinners so they get offered higher wages? Do women take on low-paying jobs more? Also, Valenti brought up that cooks used to be female dominated and wages have gone up since it has now become a male dominated job. This piqued my interest. For my last question, I wanted to know why men and women shy away from being associated with being labeled a feminist. I had heard that people might associate more if it were had a more generalized name like