Riding the Third Wave.

The article focuses on the book "Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism and the Future," by Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards. The two writers seem to be trying to repress, rather than sharpen, their differences, and this results in a book that is, narratively, both bland and contradictory by turns. The book does supply several potentially powerful correctives to contemporary feminism. Manifesta's restricted focus on liberal feminism is, unfortunately, systemic. In the rest of the book, where Second Wavers provide most of the historical counterpoint, Baumgardner and Richards repeatedly offer up liberal feminists as representative of all feminism.