Author: Lauren McKeon File Type: epub Why are women leading the fight against feminism and womens rights? From pop icons to working mothers, women are abandoning feminism in unprecedented numbers. Even scarier, they are also leading the charge to send it to its grave. Across North America, women head anti-feminist PR campaigns they support anti-feminist politicians theyre behind more than 70 lawsuits across North America to silence the victims of campus rape they participated in Gamergate, the violent, vitriolic anti-women-in-technology movement and theyre on the frontlines of the fight to end reproductive rights. Everywhere we turn theres evidence an anti-feminist bomb has exploded, sometimes detonated by the unlikeliest suspects. Between women who say they dont need feminism and women who cant agree on what feminism should be, the challenges of fighting for gender equality have never been greater.* *F-Bomb takes readers on a witty, insightful, and deeply fascinating journey into todays anti-feminist universe. Through a series of dispatches from the frontlines of the new gender wars, investigative journalist Lauren McKeon explores generational attitudes, debates over inclusiveness, and differing views on the intersection of race, class, and gender. She asks the uncomfortable question If women arent connecting with feminism, whats wrong with it? And she confronts the uncomfortable truth For gender equality to prevail, we first need to understand where feminism has gone wrong and where it can go from here. In a world where everyday sexism dominated Olympic coverage and in which 53 percent of white women voted for Donald Trump, F-Bomb presents urgent and necessary discussion on womens lives today. **About the AuthorLauren McKeon was the editor of Canadas progressive, independent This Magazine from November 2011-October 2016. Always fierce and feisty, This is like the Mother Jones of the North and has been named one of the most influential Canadian magazines of all timepublishing the countrys best and brightest thinkers in its 50-year history, including Margaret Atwood, Naomi Klein, and more. While at This, Lauren helmed one of the bestselling issues in recent years Why Canada Need More Feminism, and also organized the corresponding sold-out event, which headlined a diverse, intersectional roster of speakers. Before leading This, Lauren worked as a reporter, editor and writer in the North for several years, living in Yellowknife, and travelling Canadas territories and northern Alberta. While there, she wrote about award-winning work about everything from prisons to pipelines. Today, she is a contributing editor at Toronto Life magazine, Canadas largest circulation city magazine, where she recently wrote about her experiences with sexual assault in the memoir 15 Years of Silence. In response, Lauren has heard from dozens of women around the world whove shared their own experiencessome for the first timeand was prominently featured in the documentary PTSD Beyond Trauma, which aired in January 2017 on David Suzukis The Nature of Things. Her personal essays, which tackle the world and her experiences through a not-so-rosy feminist lens, have twice been featured on Longreads.com, a popular site dedicated to helping people find and share the best storytelling in the world. Her longform work has won her several Canadian National Magazine Awards, including three honorable mentions, one silver and, in 2015, a gold in the personal journalism category for her Toronto Life piece Save me From My Workout. She teaches longform writing at Humber College and has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Non-Fiction.

Author: Robert Proctor File Type: pdf Fifty years after the Second Vatican Council, architectural historian Robert Proctor examines the transformations in British Roman Catholic church architecture that took place in the two decades surrounding this crucial event. Inspired by new thinking in theology and changing practices of worship, and by a growing acceptance of modern art and architecture, architects designed radical new forms of church building in a campaign of new buildings for new urban contexts.A focussed study of mid-twentieth century church architecture, Building the Modern Church considers how architects and clergy constructed the image and reality of the Church as an institution through its buildings. The author examines changing conceptions of tradition and modernity, and the development of a modern church architecture that drew from the ideas of the liturgical movement. The role of Catholic clergy as patrons of modern architecture and art and the changing attitudes of the Church and its architects to modernity are examined, explaining how different strands of post-war architecture were adopted in the field of ecclesiastical buildings. The church buildings social role in defining communities through rituals and symbols is also considered, together with the relationships between churches and modernist urban planning in new towns and suburbs. Case studies analysed in detail include significant buildings and architects that have remained little known until now.Based on meticulous historical research in primary sources, theoretically informed, fully referenced, and thoroughly illustrated, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the church architecture, art and theology of this period.**