![]() ![]() Ukockis uses “intersectionality” to conceptualize current feminist politics. Ukockis limits her scope to the United States and looks at historical forms of misogyny as well as current ones. The last three take up activist strategies. The first seven describe aspects of misogyny. Ukockis’s book is divided into 10 chapters. Thus, feminism as a tool for social justice is still relevant today, and although it doesn’t appear in the title, Ukockis does advance a feminist agenda. These new forms of misogyny and the less extreme sexism add to those that have always confronted women in public, whether at work, in the street, or elsewhere: objectification, dehumanization and humiliation. Ukockis argues that we are seeing new forms of misogyny, or “hatred of women,” with the rise of social media, be it rape threats by trolls on the internet or revenge porn by men who feel rejected. In the title of her book Misogyny: The New Activism, she consciously avoided the word “feminism.” While Ukockis considers herself a feminist, she invites those who are not feminists but reject misogyny to read her book. GAIL UKOCKIS IS a writer, social worker and instructor who taught Women’s Issues at Ohio Dominican University for 11 years. Oxford University Press, 2019, 336 pages, $24.95 hardcover. ![]()
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