If you are looking for the conspiracy theory behind feminism, you may also want to read 'Cruel Hoax' by Henry Makow, PhD.

'Cruel Hoax : Feminism and the new world order' is a wake up call for women who blindly follow feminism and everybody else who think otherwise.

This book is simply delicious - Sisterhood, Interrupted truly is brain candy for the thinking woman. With an insightful and balanced touch, Deborah Siegel explains how we've arrived at this place where the "f-word" (that is, FEMINISM) has become a loaded phrase of epic proportions. Siegel's compelling arguments for a truce amongst generations made my stomach fill with happy butterflies of hope. If you support a world which encourages women to be strong & self-fulfilled, you won't want to miss this gem of a book.

As a 100% feminist, I was really excited to read Sisterhood Interrupted.

For anyone who has wondered what happened to the feminist movement, this book is a great history that tracks how change was ignited by an intrepid "girl" reporter in the 1960s who went undercover as a waitress at the infamous Playboy Club in New York City through to today's generation of women who aren't sure whether to embrace the '"f" word or not, or what it really means.

Divided into two sections, "Mothers" and "Daughters," Siegel traces, among other things, the efforts of Betty Friedan to make feminism a cause that wives and mothers in the heartland could relate to and examines Friedan's own frustrations at the time she was president of NOW about why more women weren't embracing efforts to open doors for increased opportunities.

As one of the many beneficiaries of all the groundwork my "sisters" did to enable my own opportunities, I was fascinated to read about their questions about how best to pursue their quest for equal rights.

Ask my parents, and they'll tell you that there was never any question that I would be a full-fledged feminist with a capital "F" -- a girl from a small rural town who wanted to major in political science, vote as soon as I turned 18, and who was determined to take on whatever challenges came my way. I thank all the Glorias and Bettys who went before me for making that possible.

And I'm happy to say the little apple didn't fall far from the tree.

The other day my daughter asked me to explain why there was a picture of a globe on my T-shirt with the caption, "Women. We'll Settle for Half."

"Why don't we already have half?" she asked, with a look on her face that signaled she could not even comprehend a world where she girls weren't equal to boys.

I hope for my daughter's sake the Sisterhood continues to grow and thrive. But it's clear from the history that Siegel has traced in her book, there's still some serious work to be done.

As Siegel sums it up, we need to put an end to feminist infighting -- about who's doing things the right way or the wrong way -- and call a truce if we're to continue making any progress at all:

"Younger women need older feminists to understand that for a women's movement to continue to move forward, it will require updating and reinvention. At the same time, younger women need to stop blaming older ones and ditch old stereotypes about the second wave that preclude them from rallying around common themes."

And to that I say, Amen.

As if we needed more proof of the very existence of feminism - and how it has been interpreted through the mainstream culture - Deborah Seigel has handed us a history lesson wrapped in a hot pink love letter. In her nonfiction book, Sisterhood Interrupted, Seigel imparts that not only has feminism had its mis-steps, it's fallen clear away from its foundation. But maybe that foundation needs a shake.

Don't misunderstand me: Seigel's words aren't an attack on the "f-word." Rather, she's building that tenuous bridge between the young and seemingly unmotivated, feminists and their burnt-out mothers. As a 26-year-old, self-identified woman in America, I can look around and see where the American feminist movement has failed my generation more than I can see it's successes, at times. And that's where Seigel makes her best historical point. I, with all my privilege, have the power of choice based on the historical outcomes of the movement. And I have feminists - past and present - to thank for that choice.

Sisterhood Interrupted is a quick and exciting read; Seigel exposes knowledge on where (and why) the movement split, between the more highly profiled Betty Freidan and Gloria Steinem, as well as the justification for retiring some words, like, "sisterhood." "But now I realize that sisterhood is phony. Even when there's consensus, there isn't," says Amy Richards, co-author of ManifestA, in a conversation with Seigel. "I think younger women have a better sense that it is a big façade." This 'façade' is not a backlash, or an attempt to dis-empower feminism, it's just a reality of the movement. We're not sisters based on gender alone or simply based on feminist history. I believe opening the discussion to a few things that have been deemed `sacred' isn't such a terrible thing at all.

This is a perfect book for the lay audience or a lower division undergraduate class at the university.

The major part of the book is a detailed history about mainstream feminism in the US. The last section or two were the most useful for my purposes where the author spent more time talking about young feminists today.

There were a few areas where I was surprised with simple errors, the spelling errors of names:
The author of _F Word_ and grrrl (three r's and not two is the correct way).

Besides that, I'd definitely suggest this book to my students, but not peers at the university. I also think the book would work well for a reading group to read and discuss. I'm not commenting too much on the actual content, given the two other reviews that did a great job detailing the book.