Feminist fight club : an office survival manual (for a sexist workplace)

Title:

Author:

Bennett, Jessica, 1981- author.

ISBN:

9780062439789

9780062642363

Personal Author:

Bennett, Jessica, 1981- author.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Contents:

Rules of the Feminist Fight Club -- Prepare for battle -- The FFC Womanifesto -- Know the enemy -- Know thyself -- Booby traps -- Get your speak on -- F you, pay me -- WWJD : what would Josh do? -- Join the Feminist Fight Club -- Rebel girls : FFCs through history -- A space for battle notes.

Subject Term:

Career development.

Women -- Vocational guidance.

Success in business.

Sex role in the work environment.

Added Author:

Wariner, Saskia,

Campbell, Hilary Fitzgerald,

Document ID:

SD_ILS:2248373

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Summary

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2016 BY:

Chicago Tribune, Refinery 29, Forbes, Bust, CEO Reads

Part manual, part manifesto, Feminist Fight Club is a hilarious yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work, providing real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women.

It was a fight club--but without the fighting and without the men. Every month, the women would huddle in a friend's apartment to share sexist job frustrations and trade tips for how best to tackle them. Once upon a time, you might have called them a consciousness-raising group. But the problems of today's working world are more subtle, less pronounced, harder to identify--and harder to prove--than those of their foremothers. These women weren't just there to vent. They needed battle tactics. And so the fight club was born.

Hard-hitting and entertaining, Feminist Fight Club blends personal stories with research, statistics, and no-bullsh*t expert advice. Bennett offers a new vocabulary for the sexist workplace archetypes women encounter everyday--such as the Manterrupter who talks over female colleagues in meetings or the Himitator who appropriates their ideas--and provides practical hacks for navigating other gender landmines in today's working world. With original illustrations, Feminist Mad Libs, a Negotiation Cheat Sheet, and fascinating historical research, Feminist Fight Club tackles both the external (sexist) and internal (self-sabotaging) behaviors that plague women in the workplace--as well as the system that perpetuates them.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In 2009, journalist Bennett, who now writes about gender and culture for the New York Times, founded the Feminist Fight Club with a group of 11 career-minded women living in N.Y.C. to discuss their professional setbacks and successes battling sexism on the job, and many of these experiences are recounted here. Bringing levity to common frustrations, Bennett lists ways (or "fight moves") to combat the bad behavior of workplace-perpetrator archetypes such as the "manterrupter" ("he who won't shut up") and the "bropropriator" (he who "appropriates credit for another's work"). She gives advice on avoiding coffee fetching and "office housework" and hacks away at sexist stereotypes with discussions on such issues as the fine line between assertive and aggressive. A language lesson explores minimizing speech patterns such as up-speak, hedging, and vocal fry. Tips on self-confidence boosting are punctuated with quotations from Tina Fey, Michelle Obama, and other successful women giving career advice to women. It is saddening that the problems described by the book persist, but Bennett's light approach and humorous neologisms make fighting the power a lot more palatable. (Sept.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

Journalist Bennett was part of a circle of female friends who started meeting to complain about their jobs. The women quickly realized that the bulk of their problems stemmed from sexist behavior, and the gatherings became less bitch sessions, more call-to-action meetings. Bennett shares what she's learned, hoping to give women the confidence to speak up and fight the patriarchy. There's plenty of humor here, to be sure, but there is a lot of practical and useful information, too. Just because there is a snarky chart describing the five types of Manterrupter (including the Dismisser and the Ass Kisser) doesn't mean that the point of the chart is any less true: these are the types of men women encounter regularly at work. The book is designed with short, choppy chapters that readers can dip in and out of, and is peppered with comical illustrations, adding to the fun factor. But don't let that casual tone fool you. Bennett is on a mission to reform today's workplaces, and this manifesto just might be the weapon modern women are looking for.--Vnuk, Rebecca Copyright 2016 Booklist