Cathy Young

Template:Short description Template:For Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Catherine Alicia Young (born Yekaterina Jung;<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Template:Langx; born February 10, 1963) is a Russian-American journalist. Young is primarily known for her writing about feminism and other cultural issues, as well as about Russia and the former Soviet Union. She is the author of two books, a frequent contributor to the American libertarian monthly Reason, and a regular columnist for Newsday. In 2022, she joined The Bulwark as a staff writer. She describes her political views as "libertarian/conservative".<ref name="website"/>

Life and careerEdit

Born in Moscow to a Jewish family,<ref>Young, Cathy (3 October 2017). "Is Communism Worse Than Nazism?" Forward. Retrieved 16 October 2019.</ref> Ekaterina Jung was 17 when her family emigrated to the United States in 1980. She became a naturalized citizen in 1987 as Catherine Alicia Young and graduated from Rutgers University in 1988.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> She completed her autobiography, Growing Up in Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood, published in 1989.

Young is a contributing editor at Reason. Since 2014, she has regularly contributed to Time magazine.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

FeminismEdit

ViewsEdit

In her second book, Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality, published in 1999, Young criticized both feminism and traditionalism from what she described as a "pro-equality point of view",<ref>Young, Cathy (1999), Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality (New York: Free Press, (Template:ISBN)), p. 10 (Introduction: The Gender Wars).</ref> a philosophy which she says may be called "feminism or something else".<ref>Young, Cathy, Ceasefire!, op. cit., p. 11 (Introduction).</ref> Young has defended the social media campaign Women Against Feminism.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Describing the Gamergate controversy in relation to feminism, Young has stated that she believes that Gamergate is a backlash against feminism but one that is "against a particular kind of feminism, one that has a tendency to look obsessively for offences, read ideology into everything, and demonize male sexuality under the pretext of stamping out 'the objectification of women'."<ref name="macleans">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2015, Young wrote an article in The Daily Beast in which she interviewed the student whom anti-rape activist Emma Sulkowicz accused of rape.<ref name="dailybeast">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In a response, Sulkowicz described Young as an "anti-feminist", saying that Young published Facebook conversations between her and her alleged rapist to shame her.<ref name="wapo">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Heather Wilhelm wrote in RealClearPolitics that Young's article about Sulkowicz "sets aside the hype and soberly assesses the facts."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Citing Young's article, Katie Zavadski described her in New York magazine as a "contrarian feminist".<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Young supports legally recognizing same-sex marriages.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> She describes her political views as "libertarian/conservative".<ref name="website">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

ReceptionEdit

Young co-founded the Women's Freedom Network in 1993.<ref name="Rapping 1996">Template:Cite journal</ref> The group aims to provide an alternative to "extremist, ideological feminism" as well as to "antifeminist traditionalism".Template:R According to historian Debra L. Schultz, the group represents mostly "conservative ideologues in the political correctness debates". <ref name="Schultz 2000">Template:Cite book</ref>

In his book The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker identifies Young as an "equity feminist",<ref name=Pinker>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp and further describes her as an "iconoclastic columnist" who has argued against rape-related "dogma".<ref name=Pinker/>Template:Rp She has also written stories critical of campus anti-rape activism.<ref name="wapo" /><ref name="salonmk">Template:Cite news</ref> Commentary magazine stated that Young re-investigates "atrocious coverage of campus sexual assault myths" in the "hopes of setting the record straight and minimizing some of the incredible damage the accusations have done".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

BibliographyEdit

Growing Up In Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood (1989) (Template:ISBN)
Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality (1999) (Template:ISBN)

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