The contemporary tactics of millennial feminists who are part of an active movement for social change

In 2014, after a young man murdered six students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and then killed himself, the news provoked an eye-opening surge of feminist activism. Fueled by the wide circulation of the killer’s hateful manifesto and his desire to exact “revenge” upon young women, feminists online and offline around the world clamored for a halt to such acts of misogyny. Despite the widespread belief that feminism is out-of-style or dead, this mobilization of young women fighting against gender oppression was overwhelming.
In Finding Feminism, Alison Dahl Crossley analyzes feminist activists at three different U.S. colleges, revealing that feminism is alive on campuses, but is complex, nuanced, and context-dependent. Young feminists are carrying the torch of the movement, despite a climate that is not always receptive to their claims. These feminists are engaged in social justice organizing in unexpected contexts and spaces, such as multicultural sororities, student government, and online.
Sharing personal stories of their everyday experiences with inequality, the young women in Finding Feminism employ both traditional and innovative feminist tactics. They use the Internet and social media as a tool for their activism—what Alison Dahl Crossley calls ‘Facebook Feminism.’ The university, as an institution, simultaneously aids and constrains their fight for gender equality.
Offering a stunning and hopeful portrait of today’s young feminist leaders, Finding Feminism provides insight into the contemporary feminist movement in America.

"Crossleys waveless conception of college students feminism stands out as an important analytical achievement. It makes space for imagining colleges as institutional abeyance structures with dynamic developmental properties where college students find and (re)form their notions of feminist thought and action by participating in their collegiate environments." - American Journal of Sociology

"The voices of her interview subjects add much lively description about life as a young feminist at these schools." - Publishers Weekly

"Finding Feminism embraces queer women and argues that feminism does not occur in waves . . . Crossleys concept of waveless feminism very well may help us move beyond the stalled gender revolution." - Curve Magazine

"Starting with a brief look at some of the facets that make up modern feminism, the book delves into what feminism is to millenials...[A]n enjoyable read." - Foreword Reviews