In 1998, Time magazine plastered a jarring provocation across its cover.
Is feminism dead?
By century's end,
the term post-feminism had been thoroughly bandied about in academic circles and in the media.
Had feminism finished the job?
Or maybe people were just tired of feminists.
Either way, something had shifted.
Gone were the days of suffragettes and feminist punk rockers.
In the dawn of the new millennium,
many American women were embracing the empty slogans of empowerment and girl power.
My name is Jerusalem Demsis.
I'm a staff writer here at The Atlantic.
And this is Good on Paper,
a policy show that questions what we really know about popular narratives.
In all the conversations we're having around broken dating markets, the rights of trans people,
and the growing chasm between young men and women's political views,
I felt a bit lost as to how we got here.
The feminism of the 90s feels so far removed from today.
What changed?
My colleague, Atlantic staff writer Sophie Gilbert, has a new book out called Girl on Girl,