Raising the Resistance

Raising the Resistance will:

• Identify oppressive issues that hold back women
• Validate readers’ feelings of outrage at the current climate for women in America
• Establish a need for mainstream feminism in modern American society, starting at home
• Present accessible ways mothers can incorporate feminism into their parenting
• Provide common sense solutions to fight inequality
• Discuss feminism, parenting, and politics in a way that engages the reader
  

Women make up 50.8 percent of the U.S. population. They actually outnumber men by 6.5 million. And 86 percent of women in America have had kids by the time they reach menopause. Mothers have power. They can use their voices to express that they want to make this world a kinder place for women and demand that they are heard. They can take well-deserved seats at the table. They can raise their children to be change-makers and to know better than previous, sexist generations. They can raise the resistance.

Raising the Resistance is the first book to provide a platform for change, inspiration, empowerment and guidance to the modern progressive mother fighting to defeat sexism. Alexander is a leading voice among those modern progressive mothers. Her inviting feminist philosophy has been popular among the target audience who rejoiced that someone finally put words to the sentiments they feel. Her editorial, “Hell Yes, You Can Be a Stay-at-a-Home-Mom and a Feminist,” published on Scary Mommy, was shared virally on Facebook alone more than 10,000 times.