"A brilliant introduction for those feminists who understand that 'leaning in' is not enough; three organizers of the International Women's Strike bring a Marxist analysis of women's liberation into the 21st century:
'...there is nothing feminist about ruling-class women who do the dirty work of bombing other countries and sustaining regimes of apartheid; of backing neocolonial interventions in the name of humanitarianism, while remaining silent about the genocides perpetrated by their own governments: of expropriating defenseless populations through structural adjustment, imposed debt and forced austerity.... To the state bureaucrats and financial managers, both male and female, who purport to justify their schemes by claiming to liberate brown and black women, we say: Not in our name.'
Publisher Verso
Publication Date 2019-03-05
Section New Titles - Paperback / Women's Studies / All Staff Suggestions / Nonfiction Suggestions / Kaleigh O.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9781788734424
Named one of Vogue’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2019”
This is a manifesto for the 99 percent
Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these are not what you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But aren’t they the biggest issues for the vast majority of women around the globe?
Taking as its inspiration the new wave of feminist militancy that has erupted globally, this manifesto makes a simple but powerful case: feminism shouldn’t start—or stop—with the drive to have women represented at the top of their professions. It must focus on those at the bottom, and fight for the world they deserve. And that means targeting capitalism. Feminism must be anticapitalist, eco-socialist and antiracist.
