Against Empire : Feminisims, Racism and 'the' West
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"This is a powerful and provocative work, at once an autobiography of an ardent and wide-ranging activist and a critical study of the workings of empire in this time. Eisenstein not only shows how feminism can and must rise to its global challenges, but how the workings of empire are systematically related to gender. She refuses the recourse to culturally imperialist notions of 'women' and the 'human' and shows how each of these terms might gain a broader, emancipatory meaning within a global framework."--Judith Butler, UC Berkeley
"One of the most lively feminist theorists of democracy. As always, Eisenstein is way ahead of the curve."--Cynthia Enloe, author of Maneuvers: the International Politics of Militarizing Women's Lives
"Zillah Eisenstein writes with passion and commitment. She traces the complexity of the relationships between gender, class, race and religious oppression against women, links the global with the local, the West with the East, the personal with the political, the economic with the cultural. Despite the complexity of her subject her language remains simple, illuminating and refreshing in this dark age of war and neo-imperialism."--Nawal El Saadawi, author of Woman at Point Zero
Against Empire: Feminisims, Racism and 'the' West,Zillah Eisenstein,Zed Books,184277395X,Civilization, Western,East and West,Foreign relations,General,History,History - General History,History: World,North and south,United States,Women's Studies - General,World - General,Peace studies,Political activism,Racism & racial discrimination,Social Science / Women's Studies,Women's studies
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