![]() ![]() Into this fray arrives The Female Persuasion (Riverhead, $28), Meg Wolitzer’s new novel, which puts a happier face on intergenerational feminist relations. “Older” and “younger” were in no way fixed terms. Certain older women were mad at younger ones. Certain younger women were mad at older ones. Such divisions involved resentment over hardship endured and progress taken for granted they involved misunderstood changes in sex, work, and technology. ![]() To speak of any clear-cut “generation gap” would be oversimple-but as the post-Weinstein months of #MeToo unspooled, they exposed certain fault lines in women’s expectations and experiences, some of which had to do with age. ![]() Though used without any particular regard for historical context or ideological specificity, the term second-wave expressed genuine frustration. 1967) after the HLN host criticized Way’s article about Aziz Ansari. A “burgundy-lipstick, bad-highlights, second-wave-feminist has-been”: This was what writer Katie Way called Ashleigh Banfield (b. ![]() “The Backlash to #MeToo Is Second-Wave Feminism,” declared a post on Jezebel-referring to Katie Roiphe, Daphne Merkin, and Catherine Deneuve. At a certain point in January 2018, “second-wave” seemed to have become a slur. ![]()
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