It’s been more than four decades since the feminist movement was championed by the likes of Germaine Greer and Gloria Steinem. Now British author Caitlin Moran has picked up the gauntlet -- but with a comical twist -- in her new memoir, “How to Be a Woman.”

“Young women don’t know what feminism means,” Moran said on Thursday during a live interview from New York on CTV’s Canada AM.

“They think it’s about being angry at men and having their hair cut into mullets,” said the 37-year-old award-winning broadcaster and columnist at the British daily newspaper, The Times.

But Moran, a strident feminist, offers this reminder to young women who have lost sight of what feminism means in the 21st century.

“The quick way to working it out is to put your hand down your underwear,” said Moran.

“Do you have a vagina? Do you want to be in charge of it? If you said ‘yes’ to both questions then congratulations. You’re a feminist,” she said.

Piecing together scenes from her life and the lessons that they have taught her, Moran’s book became an instant bestseller in the U.K. upon its release in 2011.

On Thursday, “How To Be a Woman,” became the No. 8 book in the United States, “despite no one knowing who I am,” Moran said.

Described by some critics as a British version of Tina Fey’s hilarious book, “Bossypants,” “How To Be a Woman” features a collection of essays on sex, marriage, abortion, men, work and raising children.

Moran opens her book in the spring of 1988 on her 13th birthday.

Dressed like Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders and weighing 182 pounds, Moran recounts how she was chased by a pack of boys who hurled stones at her. But their attentions had nothing to do with her emerging femininity, according to this author.

"I do not look very feminine,” Moran writes.

“Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine ... I am ... femi-none," she continues.

Moran then takes readers through the many comical milestones of her young womanhood, including her first attempts at waxing away her freshly sprouted pubic hair.

"I can't believe we've got to a point where it's basically costing us money to have a vagina. They're making us pay for maintenance and upkeep of our lulus, like they're a communal garden. It's a stealth tax. ... This is money we should be spending on THE ELECTRICITY BILL and CHEESE and BERETS,” Moran muses.

Moran’s book lacks all the gravitas of Greer’s 1970 classic, “The Female Eunuch.” But her motivations for writing this book were in no way trivial.

“The world scares me,” said Moran, a mother of two young girls.

“In six or seven years time my girls will be going out into the world. I want them to feel normal as they are, whether that be loud or funny or overweight -- just like a man,” Moran said on Canada AM.

Ultimately, being a feminist means being equal to men, not better or worse, according to this modern-day author. However, even Moran hopes to see a new standard set for feminism during her lifetime.

“I will know when feminism has won the war when a woman goes up and collects an Oscar for best actress in a pair of flip-flops that are comfortable and also covered in diamonds,” said Moran.