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Against White Feminism
- Author
- Rafia Zakaria
- Narrator
- Ulka Simone Mohanty
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 9 September 2021
- Run Time
- 6 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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An essential, comprehensive account of what white feminism is - and an empowering manifesto for revolution
For readers of Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Caroline Criado Perez's Invisible Women and Florence Given's Women Don't Owe You Pretty
Feminism is supposed to be the fight for the freedom and equality of women. And in the past 200 years it has made incredible gains: paving the way for women to advance economically, handing them back control of their own bodies, and advocating for their needs and their experiences.
But not for all women.
Since its very beginning, mainstream feminism has catered to a particular group of women: middle class, cis-gendered, Western, and above all, white. And the exclusion of everyone outside this narrow category is not merely an oversight, a coincidence, a slip. It is baked into the way feminism works.
This must change. White supremacy is killing feminism. Until all of us are free and equal in society, none of us are.
The power to transform it lies with each one of us. It starts with understanding how we got here in the first place.
Eye-opening, timely and impossible to ignore, Against White Feminism traces the connections between feminism and white supremacy from the earliest stirrings of the women's suffrage movement to the 'fourth wave' we see today, demonstrating how an idea based on equality has been corrupted by prejudice and exploitation from the start. Rafia Zakaria issues a powerful call to arms to every reader to build a new kind of feminism which will light the path to true emancipation for all.
'Necessary, warm-hearted and sharp-eyed... [Zakaria] brings compassion, intelligence, and a steady drumbeat of change to redefining feminism... This book is going to light fires everywhere, so if you are prone to combust, get right the hell out of the way' Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2021
© Rafia Zakaria 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
Critics Review
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Bracing and compassionate... Make room beside Audre Lorde and Angela Davis on your shelves
Chicago Review of Books
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A thoughtful and provocative collection calling for a sharper feminism... It is a must-read
Roxane Gay
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Against White Feminism is the book I have been waiting for. This landmark work will forever change how we view the feminist movement and our place in it
Sonia Faleiro, author of 'The Good Girls'
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What does feminism look like when it centers on Black and Brown women? And when it doesn't hold hands with colonialism? Rafia Zakaria makes a clear case for intersectional feminism that puts power in a different place
Washington Post
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Zakaria is a warm-hearted and sharp-eyed writer who brings compassion, intelligence and a steady drumbeat of change to redefining feminism... This book is going to light fires everywhere, so if you are prone to combust, get right the hell out of the way
Lit Hub - Most Anticipated Books of 2021
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A brilliant, bracing, and deeply necessary text. Showing how feminism had systematically centred white women's voices, and excluded others', this is a polemic that couldn't be more urgent in improving feminism as a movement
Kate Manne, author of 'Down Girl'
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Lucid and persuasive... Tackling complex philosophical ideas with clarity and insight, Zakaria builds an impeccable case for the need to rebuild feminism from the ground up. Readers will want to heed this clarion call for change
Publishers Weekly
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In this searing takedown, Rafia Zakaria expertly puts into words what so many women of colour feel and endure. An exhilarating and brilliantly researched read that doubles up as a long overdue call to action. Unputdownable, required reading for people of all genders, generations and races
Zahra Hankir, editor of 'Our Women on the Ground'
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Complacent, well-intentioned feminism isn't good enough... The heart of what this book demands - a feminism that is less self-satisfied and secure in its power, more curious about the differences in women's experiences, and more generous and expansive in its reach - is worth fighting for
Mythili G. Rao, Washington Post
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Zakaria eloquently reveals the smug assumptions behind white western feminism [and] demonstrates quite brilliantly the hypocrisy of middle and upper class white feminists who conveniently ignore and exploit the power advantages traceable to centuries of imperialism. This book is a wake-up call for white feminists
Remi Adekoya, author of 'Biracial Britain'
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Details
- Author
- Rafia Zakaria
- Narrator
- Ulka Simone Mohanty
- Duration
- 6 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 September 2021
- ISBN
- 9780241993064
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Feminism and feminist theory, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Mixed heritage / mixed race groups or people, Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation and independence, Slavery and abolition of slavery, European history, Asian history, Social and cultural history
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.An essential, comprehensive account of what white feminism is - and an empowering manifesto for revolutionFor readers of Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Caroline Criado Perez's Invisible Women and Florence Given's Women Don't Owe You PrettyFeminism is supposed to be the fight for the freedom and equality of women. And in the past 200 years it has made incredible gains: paving the way for women to advance economically, handing them back control of their own bodies, and advocating for their needs and their experiences.But not for all women.Since its very beginning, mainstream feminism has catered to a particular group of women: middle class, cis-gendered, Western, and above all, white. And the exclusion of everyone outside this narrow category is not merely an oversight, a coincidence, a slip. It is baked into the way feminism works.This must change. White supremacy is killing feminism. Until all of us are free and equal in society, none of us are. The power to transform it lies with each one of us. It starts with understanding how we got here in the first place.Eye-opening, timely and impossible to ignore, Against White Feminism traces the connections between feminism and white supremacy from the earliest stirrings of the women's suffrage movement to the 'fourth wave' we see today, demonstrating how an idea based on equality has been corrupted by prejudice and exploitation from the start. Rafia Zakaria issues a powerful call to arms to every reader to build a new kind of feminism which will light the path to true emancipation for all.'Necessary, warm-hearted and sharp-eyed... [Zakaria] brings compassion, intelligence, and a steady drumbeat of change to redefining feminism... This book is going to light fires everywhere, so if you are prone to combust, get right the hell out of the way' Lit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2021 © Rafia Zakaria 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021
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