Name: This isn't her mother's feminism
Uploaded: 2011-03-08T16:24:00Z
Duration: 11 min 9 s
Description: Blogger Courtney E. Martin examines the perennially loaded word "feminism" in this personal and heartfelt talk. She talks through the three essential paradoxes of her generation's quest to define the term for themselves.

Blogger Courtney E. Martin examines the perennially loaded word "feminism" in this personal and heartfelt talk. She talks through the three essential paradoxes of her generation's quest to define the term for themselves.

Courtney E. Martin: This isn't her mother's feminism

This isn't her mother's feminism

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