Afterword

Abstract

It was no accident. The stigma attached to feminism, as a concept and a movement, didn’t happen by mistake. Feminism challenges privilege and profit — fighting back and vested power interests are challenged. Over the past three decades, feminism has been effectively tarred and feathered; paraded around town as some embarrassing little fad from the seventies. If the ‘f word’ did appear in the headlines it was generally to remind us that feminism was ‘dead’ or unnecessary. And so the lie that equality between women and men had been achieved was successfully sold. The catastrophic effect was to sever many women and girls from the political project to end the daily harassment, belittling, silencing and violence that so many experience.