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What Women Want: Fun, Freedom and an End to Feminism Paperback – 1 Aug. 2017

by Ella Whelan (Author)
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The brave, bold Ella Whelan is a leading voice of a rising generation of young warriors for free speech, which is lamentably threatened from both the left and the right in today's world. -- Camille Paglia


And now, in this brilliant book, she puts the case for female autonomy against feminist victimhood. Some feminists will no doubt cry ‘anti-feminist!’, but this would be inaccurate; in fact, this book is in the tradition of the Suffragettes, the female explorers, the female workforce and other female pioneers of the 20th and 21st centuries who demanded that society should mine rather than suppress women’s potential. All women and men who value women’s liberation should read this. -- Brendan O’Neill (from the Foreword).

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  1. Print length
    98 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd
  4. Publication date
    1 Aug. 2017
  5. Dimensions
    14.81 x 0.58 x 21.01 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    1925501477
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1925501476
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About the Author

Ella Whelan is the assistant editor at spiked. She frequently features as a political commentator on TV and radio, specialising in the relationship between free speech, feminism and women's liberation.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Connor Court Publishing Pty Ltd (1 Aug. 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 98 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1925501477
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1925501476
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.81 x 0.58 x 21.01 cm
  • Customer reviews:

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J A R
5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely buy this book… leave your first judgement at the door and enjoy.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 July 2021
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I loved the honesty, the opinion, the thoughts it provoked and the discussions that ensued. It’s that good, I’ve males reading it too. Small but good to digest. As a female, a mother, breast feeder and overall women I feel that what I want is ignored currently or what those of us like me need or deserve. Equality isn’t found by eroding someone else’s rights to get yours, it’s about finding balance. If you learn to find balance and harmony anything is possible, but if you shove politics, identity or otherwise into someone’s face and make incomprehensible demands people will pushback.

This author will likely get negative reviews from many who didn’t read the book, read snippets or subjectively seen it as an attack rather than the actual information and direction it was aimed. If you are an (mainly) adult female 30+ it is fantastic and you will find yourself nodding in agreement to much of it, it will make you discover pieces of history and think further on this. It’s not a Harry Potter Book, it is not run of the mill self help book and it is definitely not a politically sided book!! It’s a book for women and especially those who want their years of fighting for freedom, acceptance, and their own role in society not to be removed by other women, or people who to be fair may have decided to decide for us all collectively. Then ignore us when we have a different voice.

Look have a read, leave your ready to be negative at the door and have an honest moment with yourself and balance this with a review.

Everyone can read stuff they don’t always agree fully with but you will always find something, somewhere within that you do, if you don’t then only you are deluding yourself.

Loved it! And my 16 year old daughter who doesn’t fit this generations “think like me or else” narrative can read it if she chooses.

Beauty of being HUMAN - our thoughts are ours, for now!
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ancientruin
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 February 2023
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Extremely well written and organised. This lady knows what she wants to say and says it in a very readable way. The various points were not all unfamiliar to me, and I agree with most, if not all of them, but some of her comments made me think which is, to me, testament to a well argued piece of work. I think it should be a book that all feminists today should read and maybe some will question just how far the feminist arguments have been changed, in my opinion, to the detriment, over recent years. I was one of the original feminists of the 60s and 70s and I am alarmed at how the idea of feminism has changed even corrupted.
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S. L. Sheridan
5.0 out of 5 stars Concise and refreshing
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 August 2019
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Ella Whelan is one of the stars of the challenging website Spikedonline. She has written a punchy critique of how much of the modern feminist movement has gone down a dark alley of bigotry and doublethink, which feminists of previous eras would have found horrifying. Much of this driven by a tiny minority of middle class activists, who ironically show indifference towards many women who suffer severely through the oppression of forced marriages, FGM, domestic abuse and grooming. They also seek to deprive working class women of job opportunities they consider inappropriate. Whelan references her points in the text, so one can go back to the original sources. I hope she does a larger update to the book in due course. There are many female viewpoints out there, so it is shame that only ones who generally get heard in the mainstream media are from a narrow class-based cohort.
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Hanna Morgan
1.0 out of 5 stars Meh
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 February 2023
Its written by someone who just wants to be heard but with arguments not really worth listening to. Like how your five year old will try to convince you of something that you can clearly see through
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FM
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 December 2020
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A great read - inspiring, insightful, accurate... a well needed strong voice representative of many females currently drowned out by the rabble and trending social narrative
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Liisa
5.0 out of 5 stars Concise and enjoyable read.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 September 2017
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An excellent accessible text. I was brought up to believe as a girl I could achieve anything and I will be bringing up my little girl to believe the same. Women aren't victims and this book explains clearly why modern feminism is harming women by portraying us as weak and in need of uneven playing field.
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R. Lock
5.0 out of 5 stars Middle class Feminism shown for what it really is.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 April 2019
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Brilliant. Shows radical Feminists as to what they really are.
1. Victimhood.
2. Demonizing Men.
3. Intolerance.
4. Idealism.
5. Snobbery towards working class women.
6. Outrage culture.

Equality of opportunity not equality of outcome.
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Breeding disease
1.0 out of 5 stars Who needs male misogynists when you have this lass
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 February 2023
Sets women back 50 years.
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Megan
5.0 out of 5 stars Fresh arguments
Reviewed in Australia on 18 May 2024
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I really liked the forward and some very well-articulated arguments. Are men friendly or not?- we are encouraging a whole generation to see them as the enemy.
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