Naomi Wolf
A Wiser America
NEW YORK – When America absorbed the bombings at the Boston Marathon, what was striking was what did not happen. Twelve years after the atta…
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Naomi Wolf
America’s Zombie Prison
NEW YORK – Why add to something that is not supposed to exist?The something in question is the Unites States’ prison in Guantánamo Bay, for …
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Naomi Wolf
Sheryl Sandberg’s Good Fight
NEW YORK – Is it always offensive to advise women to change something about themselves in order to ensure that they can achieve their goals?…
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America the Unequal
PARK CITY, UTAH – The last documentary film that used dry charts and statistics to make an abstract argument about a global issue and noneth…
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Ending India’s Rape Culture
NEW YORK – The crime seems incomprehensible. A 23-year-old physiotherapy student is dead, 12 days after having been raped for more than an h…
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A Death in Galway
NEW YORK – The case of Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old dentist from India who had moved, with her husband, to Ireland, continues to rever…
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Kill and Let Die
NEW YORK – By a strange but fitting coincidence, US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, held their final deba…
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Naomi Wolf
The Vagina Chronicles
NEW YORK – Has there really been a sexual revolution? One of the themes that I explore in my new book, Vagina: A New Biography, is that…
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Sweden’s Other Rape Suspects
NEW YORK – It is difficult for me, as an advocate against rape and other forms of violence against women, to fathom the laziness and willful…
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Arming the Asylum
NEW YORK – The horror has become almost routine. This time, the massacre site was a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, where accused sh…
Naomi Wolf: The Next Wave
Whatever happened to feminism? Does Islam really turn women into “happy slaves”? Is America’s traditional commitment to democracy and equality in terminal decline? Has the West illegitimately monopolized the idea of human rights? Are there specific female values?
In the beginning, there was the “first wave,” the nineteenth-century feminists who fought for women’s suffrage. Then came the second wave, the feminists of the 1960’s and 1970’s who fought for equality before the law and of opportunity. At least in the West, feminism broke down the legal and ideological barriers that had precluded women’s full political and economic participation. But has the battle for emancipation really been won?
As a leading figure of feminism’s “third wave,” Naomi Wolf, author of such acclaimed books as The Beauty Myth, Fire with Fire, Promiscuities, and Misconceptions, has sought to answer that question.
Naomi Wolf advocates “power feminism”: women must assert themselves politically to get what they want. Yet, since all women do not have the same interests, owing to differences of race, culture, and class, she rejects the possibility of a universal female agenda.
Indeed, throughout her career, Wolf, who served as an electoral campaign adviser to Bill Clinton and Al Gore, has sought to transcend a purely feminist sensibility – the hallmark of feminism’s first two waves – by embedding it within a broader critique of contemporary politics and society. In her most recent book, The End of America, she seeks to identify the processes and policies by which democratic ideals and practices may be undermined.
Wolf's commentaries in The Next Wave, written exclusively for Project Syndicate, challenge conventional views – often held by feminists – about abortion, pornography, sexual harassment, and much else, while paying close attention to evidence and nuances that are often overlooked or intentionally ignored. Equally important, Wolf never loses sight of how public debate about such issues both influences and reflects the character and quality of our political institutions.
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Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf played a leading role in so-called “third-wave” feminism and as an advocate of “power feminism,” which holds that women must assert themselves politically in order to achieve their goals. She advised the presidential campaigns of Bill Clinton and Al Gore. Her books include The Beauty Myth, The End of America and, most recently, Vagina: A Biography.
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