The Everyday Feminist The Key to Sustainable Social Impact -- Driving Movements We Need Now More than Ever

An invigorating exploration of impactful feminist movements and strategies for replicating their success

In The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact-Driving Movements We Need Now More than Ever, accomplished feminist activist and executive Latanya Mapp Frett delivers a powerful and practical exploration of the factors that make a feminist social movement impactful in its place and time. In the book, you'll discover popular and not-so-popular social movements and the leaders, art, research, and narratives that drove them.

The author explains what made these social movements so effective and explains the steps that organizations, nonprofits, and social impact professionals can take to replicate that success on the ground and in the present.

The book also includes:

• Discussions of the importance of feminist funds in bankrolling critical feminist movements
• Explanations of the roles played by men and boys in building a feminist future
• Actionable and straightforward advice applicable to everyone trying to make a difference for women around the world

An essential text for feminist advocates who find themselves in an increasingly challenging political and social environment, The Everyday Feminist is the practical blueprint to social change that lawmakers, activists, entrepreneurs, and non-profit professionals have been waiting for.

Latanya Mapp Frett is President and CEO of Global Fund For Women, a nonprofit foundation and leading funder of gender justice movements worldwide. She is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and serves as Board Director for Oxfam and Management Sciences for Health. She is the former Executive Director of Planned Parenthood Global.

Foreword by Cecile Richards

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction MY STORY & CHALLENGING THE FEMINIST FUNDING GAP

PART ONE THE UNDERAPPRECIATED, UNDER-RESOURCED BUT OVERACHIEVING EVERYDAY FEMINIST

1 What is an Everyday Feminist & Why They Matter for Social Impact

2 It Takes a Movement to Change Hearts and Minds

3 How We’re Failing to Fund Our Most Powerful Social Movement-Builders

PART TWO THE EVERYDAY FEMINIST IN ACTION

4 Stay in the Game – Even When You Win

5 If It Walks and Talks Like a Feminist Leader, Follow

6 Feminist Work for Men and Boys Too

7 The Closer You Are to Impact Matters

8 Remember the Past … to Craft the Future

9 If the System is Broke, Let a Feminist Fix It - In Any Sector

10 Quality Partnership IS a Thing – Take Real and Unique Steps Together

11 Start Feminism Young

PART THREE GETTING ON BOARD WITH THE EVERYDAY FEMINIST

12 Why YOU Need the Everyday Feminist

13 Why the Everyday Feminist Needs YOU

14 Don’t Recreate the Wheel – The Role of Feminist Funds

Conclusion The World is Depending on Feminist Activists

Endnotes

Resource List

Index

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