Against White Feminism - Rafia Zakaria

Brand: W. W. Norton & Company | Status: Còn hàng

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"This book was refreshingly empirical. I enjoyed its blunt truths. Although I'm a white person I didn't feel pushed away by Zakaria's thesis--I felt invited to re-examine the goals of feminism as they have been defined by Western white women. I was asked to consider all the ways that cultural bias, Western economic values, and the residue of colonialism have warped feminist thinking, and have impeded progress for all genders. I was moved by what Zakaria wrote about her personal experiences, and I was persuaded by her arguments. Although the title of her book feels deliberately antagonistic, the book itself is nuanced and inclusive, where I could see how white women have also been hurt by adopting definitions of female empowerment that are exclusionary and competitive and, well, male. I suggest you read it." - Goodreads Reviewer

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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.