Financial Feminist
Tori Dunlap · 2022
Financial Feminist (2022) is a book by Tori Dunlap on Women & money / financial empowerment. Tori Dunlap reframes women's personal finance as a systemic and emotional fight, not a math test, heal your money story, spend on what you value, and follow a clear plan to build real wealth and freedom.
Read this to stop blaming yourself for money struggles and start treating your bank account as a feminist weapon.
Three of the ideas you’ll keep
The Clif summary of Financial Feminist pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.
- Financial feminism reframes money as women's most powerful tool against patriarchal barriers, freedom and safety, not just budgeting. Until the 1974 Equal Credit Opportunity Act, women often couldn't get their own credit without a man, so financial exclusion is recent and by design.
- 'You are not bad with money', shame is a manufactured, systemic outcome, not a personal failing. Dunlap treats money as far more a matter of emotion and behavior than of math, so the inner work comes first.
- Do the emotional work before the numbers: excavate your 'money story' and name your 'financial trauma' so old family scripts stop silently driving your spending and avoidance.
The other 4 — and the full 11-minute summary — are in the app.
What’s inside: 8 chapters
The whole summary runs about 11 minutes, read or listened to.
- Money Is a Feminist Issue
- The Emotions of Money
- Spend Like You Mean It
- The Financial Game Plan: Where Do I Start?
- Getting Out of Debt Without the Shame
- Invest Like a Feminist
- Earn What You're Worth
- The Financial Feminist Lifestyle
Finish Financial Feminist tonight.
Read or listen to the full summary in about 11 minutes, then keep the ideas with a minute of review a day. Start with the 2-minute quiz — no card required.
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