Published in 2007
240 pages
Deborah Siegel, PhD, is an expert on gender, politics, and the unfinished business of “feminism” across generations, as well as a thought leadership coach who helps leaders unlock their most meaningful thinking on and beyond the written page. She is the author of Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild, co-editor of the literary anthology Only Child, and co-founder of both the boundary-breaking webjournal The Scholar & Feminist Online (housed at Barnard College) and She Writes—the largest online community for women who write (36,000+ active members). She is a Senior Facilitator with The OpEd Project; a guest instructor at the Northwestern University Summer Writers’ Conference, a Visiting Scholar in Northwestern’s Gender & Sexuality Studies Department, and Adjunct Faculty in Communications at DePaul University. Her work has appeared in venues including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, CNN.com, The Forward, Slate, The Huffington Post, The American Prospect, Ms., More, and Psychology Today, in multiple anthologies, and on her blogs. A dynamic speaker with a personal approach, she lectures and teaches workshops nationwide.
Deborah received her doctorate in English and American Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After many years in New York, she now lives in Chicagoland with her husband and their twins. She is currently working on a series of essays about the way we raise girls and boys. She can frequently be found reading personal essays from a stage as part of Chicago’s live lit scene, or walking along the lake.
What is this book about?
Contrary to clichés about the end of feminism, Deborah Siegel argues that younger women are reliving the battles of its past, and reinventing it–with a vengeance. From feminist blogging to the popularity of the WNBA, girl culture is on the rise. A lively and compelling look back at the framing of one of the most contentious social movements of our time, Sisterhood, Interrupted exposes the key issues still at stake, outlining how a twenty-first century feminist can reconcile the personal with the political and combat long-standing inequalities that continue today.
