Enemy feminisms TERFs, policewomen, and girlbosses against liberation / Sophie Lewis.
| Author/creator | Lewis, Sophie author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | 332 pages ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The "Enslaved" Englishwoman goes abroad -- The anti-antiracist abolitionist -- The civilizer -- The prohibitionist -- The KKK feminist -- The blackshirt -- The policewoman -- The pornophobe -- The girlboss -- The femonationalist -- The pro-life feminist -- The adult human female -- Conclusion: Feminism against cisness. |
| Abstract | "In recent years, "white feminism" and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won't make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what Western feminism has wrought if we have any hope of building the feminist world we need. Sophie Lewis offers an unflinching tour of enemy feminisms, from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today's anti-abortion and TERF feminists. Enemy feminisms exist. Feminism is not an inherent political good. Only when we acknowledge that can we finally reckon with the ways these feminisms have pushed us toward counterproductive and even violent ends. And only then can we finally engage in feminist strategizing that is truly antifascist. At once a left transfeminist battlecry against cisness, a decolonial takedown of nationalist womanhoods, and a sex-radical retort to femmephobia in all its guises, Enemy Feminisms is above all a fierce, brilliant love letter to feminism."-- From Amazon |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-323) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Lewis, Sophie (Sophie A.) Enemy feminisms. Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2025 9798888902721 |
| ISBN | 9798888902936 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9798888902493 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |