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Social Science Gender Studies

Big Sister

How Extreme Feminism Has Betrayed the Fight for Sexual Equality

by (author) Neil Boyd

Publisher
Douglas & McIntyre
Initial publish date
Apr 2004
Category
Gender Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781553650010
    Publish Date
    Apr 2004
    List Price
    $22.95

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Description

For more than a decade, the destructive and dishonest ideology of radical feminism has flourished in North America.

In this provocative book, Neil Boyd argues that a new wave of self-described extreme feminists have been remarkably successful in reworking criminal and family law and thus transforming the rules of sexual conduct and our notions of fairness and equality, as well as undermining a socially valuable feminism. Boyd describes how U.S. radical feminists Catherine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin have been instrumental in changing Canada's obscenity law, shatters the various myths about domestic violence, and illuminates some disturbing truths behind sexual assault and sexual harrassment in today's society.

Backed up by extensive research and illustrated by stories that are chilling, Big Sister shows how extremists have changed the law in ways that threaten free speech, bring a code of Puritanism to male-female relationships, alter common-sense understandings of sexual consent, infantilize women, and jeopardize gender relations.

About the author

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Neil Boyd is a professor and associate director of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. He is a frequent media commentator on drug law, drug policy, and criminal violence, and has completed community impact studies on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Educated in psychology at the University of Western Ontario and in law at Osgoode Hall Law School, he is the author of five previous books, including The Last Dance.

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