INTERVIEW


Ruthie Collins on contemporary feminism, plus an interview with feminist icon and author of No Excuses, Gloria Feldt.


Power to the


Women!


Here in the UK, not a week passes in the broadsheets or glossy mags without a piece on the ‘new feminism’ cur- rently taking our women by storm (or at least being de- bated by them). Whether you agree with it or not, feminism – in its many nefarious forms – is very, very ‘now’.


There’s the slightly dubious ‘bun- ny feminism’, claiming that the reinvention of Playboy bunny girls into highly paid, highly skilled jobs is empowering for women. Not to mention ‘funny feminism’, that ban- ishes the belief forever that women are just crap at comedy and re- claims our power to make the world


laugh (check comedienne Chelsea Handler, films Bridesmaids or Bad Teacher, or writer Caitlin Moran’s new book How to Be a Woman). Then there’s the gutsy, more ‘seri- ous feminism’, that staunchly chal- lenges the rise of ‘laddish culture’, points the finger at enduring in- equality and wonders why we are


7 INSPIRATIONAL WOMAN MAGAZINE still left holding the baby (check


Sylvia Walby’s Popular Culture and the Future of Feminism, Rebecca Asher’s Shattered and Kat Ban- yard’s The Equality Illusion).


So is it all power to women then? Only if we take it, writes feminist icon and activist Glora Feldt in her


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