Meet The Students Who Launched The Mother Of All PR Campaigns

Somewhere in the universe Emily Pankhurst is smiling.

When a women’s studies class at Duke University decided they didn’t like the negative way feminism was often portrayed, they decided to ask fellow students a simple question: Who needs feminism?  As with all good things digital, the project took off as people around the world also posted their responses online. Out of one small class of students, feminism 2.0 was born.

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Somewhere in the universe Emily Pankhurst is smiling.

When a women’s studies class at Duke University decided they didn’t like the negative way feminism was often portrayed, they decided to ask fellow students a simple question: Who needs feminism?  As with all good things digital, the project took off as people around the world also posted their responses online. Out of one small class of students, feminism 2.0 was born.

ORIGINAL: By the students of Professor Rachel Seidman’s Women in a Public Sphere course at Duke University. Wanna play too? Check out the WNF? facebook and tumblr pages and post a definition of what feminism means to you. 

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