In Full Frontal Feminism, author Jessica Valenti presents an updated, white- middle-class-hetero-friendly, do-it-yourself version of feminism for young women. Hays and Butler argue that this version of feminism is ultimately vacuous and reproduces the very problems Valenti is trying to confront.
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Sharon Hays is in the sociology departent at the University of Southern California. She studies gender, culture, and social inequality.
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