Abolitionist socialist feminism : radicalizing the next revolution / Zillah Eisenstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eisenstein, Zillah R., author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialist feminism.

United States.

Socialist feminism--United States.

Antislavery movements--United States.

Antislavery movements.

Women's rights--United States.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

160 pages ; 18 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, [2019]

Summary:

A personal and political manifesto vying for an antiracist socialist feminist movement of movements. The world is burning, flooding, and politically exploding, to the point where it's become clear that neoliberal feminism--the kind that aims to elect The First Woman President--will never be enough. In this book, Zillah Eisenstein asks us to consider what it would mean to thread "socialism" to feminism; then, what it would mean to thread "abolitionism" to socialist feminism. She asks all of us, especially white women, to consider what it would mean to risk everything to abolish white supremacy, to uproot the structural knot of sex, race, gender, and class growing from that imperial whiteness. If we are to create a revolution that is totally liberatory, we need to pool together in a new working class, building a radical movement made of movements. Eisenstein's manifesto is built on almost half a century of her antiracist socialist feminist work. But now, she writes with a new urgency and imaginativeness. Eisenstein asks us not to be limited by reforms, but to radicalize each other on differing fronts. Our task is to build bridges, to connect disparate and passionate people across aisles, state lines, picket lines, and more. The genius force demanding that we abolish white supremacy can also create a new "we" for all of us--a humanity universally accepting of our complexities and differences. We are in uncharted waters, but that is exactly where we need to be.

Contents:

A few foundational queries

An intro of sorts

A beginning of sorts

After Trump's victory

On feminisms

Why socialist feminism is not enough

Why antiracism is never enough

The white mind and its injusticies

And then there was the 2016 election

When the critique of capital(ism) is not enough

When the pope's pontifications are not enough

When the proletariat is not white men

The chaos of Trump's white-supremacist misogyny

Revolutionizing #MeToo, #Timesup, #UsToo, #Sexualspring

Framing abolitionism

On building revolutionary connectors

Creating revolutionary possibilities

A few afterthoughts

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Eisenstein, Zillah R., author. Abolitionist socialist feminism

ISBN:

9781583677629

1583677623

1583677615

9781583677612

OCLC:

1077962500