International Standard Book Number |
9781324006619
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International Standard Book Number |
1324006617
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Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
305.42
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Personal Name |
Zakaria, Rafia, 1978- author.
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Title Statement |
Against white feminism : notes on disruption / Rafia Zakaria.
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Varying Form of Title |
Notes on disruption.
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Edition Statement |
First edition.
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Imprint |
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2021
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Physical Description |
x, 244 pages ; 22 cm.
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Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index.
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Formatted Contents Note |
Introduction: At a wine bar, a group of feminists -- In the beginning, there were white women -- Is solidarity a lie? -- The White Savior Industrial Complex and the Ungrateful Brown Feminist -- White feminists and feminist wars -- Sexual liberation is women's empowerment -- Honor killings, FGC, and white feminist supremacy -- "I built a white feminist temple" -- From deconstruction to reconstruction -- Conclusion: On fear and futures.
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Summary, Etc. |
"A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights. Upper-middle-class white women have long been heralded as 'experts' on feminism. They have presided over multinational feminist organizations and written much of what we consider the feminist canon, espousing sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity, all while branding the language of the movement itself in whiteness and speaking over Black and Brown women in an effort to uphold privilege and perceived cultural superiority. An American Muslim woman, attorney, and political philosopher, Rafia Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism in Against White Feminism, centering women of color in this transformative overview and counter-manifesto to white feminism’s global, long-standing affinity with colonial, patriarchal, and white supremacist ideals. Covering such ground as the legacy of the British feminist imperialist savior complex and 'the colonial thesis that all reform comes from the West' to the condescension of the white feminist–led 'aid industrial complex' and the conflation of sexual liberation as the 'sum total of empowerment,' Zakaria follows in the tradition of intersectional feminist forebears Kimberlé Crenshaw, Adrienne Rich, and Audre Lorde. Zakaria ultimately refutes and reimagines the apolitical aspirations of white feminist empowerment in this staggering, radical critique, with Black and Brown feminist thought at the forefront."--book jacket.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Feminism.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Feminism Moral and ethical aspects.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women's rights Moral and ethical aspects.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women, White Civil rights.
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Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Minority women Civil rights.
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