Freedman, Estelle B. Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 253 pp.

Continual declarations of feminism's demise, most notably by Time magazine in 1998, portray the movement as a monolithic and straightforward piece of history with an easily identifiable beginning and end. These premature—and mistaken— eulogies attempt to squeeze the vast history of United States feminism into a tidy, disposable package, tossed aside as soon as another female television character dons a power suit and glides up the corporate ladder. But as Estelle B. Freedman illustrates in her recently published collection of essays, Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics, the U.S. feminist movement has historically taken many routes and directions to continually "alter social relations by exposing the undeserved privileges that perpetuate long-standing social inequities" (1). Whereas mainstream media works hard to hammer the final nail into the coffin, the breadth and range of Freedman's essays clearly point to the undying pertinence of feminism today.