In this talk, Sarah Banet-Weiser draws on material from her book, Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny, and discusses the ways in which contemporary popular feminism re-imagines and re-directs what “empowerment” means for girls and women, and how it is restructuring feminist politics within neoliberal culture. For many, a broader acceptance of feminism as an identity, concept and practice is exhilarating; yet, for those who find feminsm to be a threat, this acceptance also stimulates fear, trepidation, aggression, and violence. This talk is about the deeply entwined relationship between the creation and expression of popular feminism and what she calls popular misogyny.

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