90s-Bitch-Media-Culture-and-the-Failed-Promise-of-Gender-Equality

2. 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality &#8220Alison Yarrow takes you back to the era of Anita Hill and Monica Lewinsky and Tonya Harding and examines how the media fueled America&#8217ssexism.&#8221#8212BustleTo understand how we got here, we have to rewind the VHS tape.&nbsp90sBitch&nbsptels the real story of women and girls in the 1990s, exploring how they were maligned by the media, vilified by popular culture, and objectified in the marketplace.&nbspTralblazing women like Hillary Clinton, Anita Hill, Madeleine Albright, Janet Reno, and Marcia Clark were undermined. Newsmakers like Britney Spears, Monica Lewinsky, Tonya Harding and Lorena Bobbitt were shamed and misunderstood. The advent of the twenty-four-hour news cycle reinforced society's deeply entrenched misogyny. Meanwhile, marketers hijacked feminism, sold &#8220Gil Power,&#8221and poisoned a generation.&nbspTody echoes of 90s &#8220bichification&#8221still exist everywhere. To understand why, we must revisit and interrogate the 1990s&#8212adecade in which empowerment was twisted into objectification, exploitation, and subjugation.&nbspAwad&#8211wining journalist Allison Yarrow&#8217stimely examination is a must-read for anyone trying to understand twenty-first century sexism and end it for the next generation.&#8220Yarow&#8217sbiting autopsy of the decade scrutinizes the way society reduced&#8212or&#8220bichified&#8221#8212women . . . Direct quotes from politicians, journalists and comedians about the women provide the most jarring, oh-my-god-that-really- happened portions of Yarrow&#8217sdecade

3. excavation.&#8221&#8212Pitsburg Post- Gazette&#8220Alison Yarrow is a feminist and a muckraker in the tradition of Betty Friedan, Naomi Klein, and bell hooks.&#8221&#8212Stve Almond, author of&nbspBadStories: What the Hell Just Happened to Our Country&#8220Yarow is a skillful scene setter.&#8221&#8212Th Los Angeles Review of Books&#8220#8216Essential reading for every feminist.&#8221Anne Helen Petersen, author of&nbspTooFat, Too Slutty, Too Loud

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