Feminist International: How to Change Everything

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Recent years have seen massive feminist mobilizations in virtually every continent, overturning social mores and repressive legislation. As women filled the streets of Argentina and Madrid, in Italy and Poland, theyve transformed the meaning of radical politics and the grammar of various struggles. In this brilliant and kaleidoscopic look at the emerging feminist international, Veronica Gago uses the womens strike as both a concept and a collective experience. At once a gripping political analysis and a theoretically-charged manifesto, The Feminist International draws on the authors rich experience with radical movements to enter into ongoing debates in feminist and marxist theory: from social reproduction and domestic work to the intertwining of financial and gender violence, as well as controversies surrounding the neo-extractivist model of development, the possibilities and limits of left populism, and the ever-vexed nexus of gender-race-class. Gagos feminism is powerful call to abandon the rhetoric of victimization, and to instead mount a frontal challenge to both neo-liberal rule and the conservative counteroffensive. The Feminist Revolution asks what another theory of power might look like, one premised on our desire to change everything.

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Inspired by the internationally coordinated strike for the 8th of March, Gago has given us a book that well captures the revolutionary potential of contemporary feminism - its theories, its organizational forms, its struggles - all examined though the lenses of one of the most radical feminist movements on the American continent. It is a courageous and creative book, an ideal read for political formation; it opens new worlds and calls for action. -- Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch
Gago offers in this book the most comprehensive transversal anaysis and the most compelling case for feminist praxis -- Judith Butler, author of The Force of Non-Violence
Gago offers a feminist analysis of"strike" as radical reimagination of traditionalfeminized roles. ... Reading Feminist International affirmed what Ialready hold to be true: women make the world go'round. ... In exploringthe political potential of contemporary radicalfeminist movements worldwide, [this book] showed me thatwomen of color will always provide a voice forpeople fighting to be seen, heard, and kept alive. -- Laura V. Eley * Women's Review of Books *
Invigorating ... Gago shows how the "feminist strike" extends beyond conventional parameters-unions, the wage relation, male workers, male bosses-to draw in sex workers, indigenous people, the unemployed, workers in the informal economy, housewives. -- Amia Srinivasan * New Yorker *

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Vernica Gago is a leader in Argentina's #NiUnaMenos movement (Not One More!), as both a theoretician and an activist. She is also a Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Professor at the Instituto de Altos Estudios, Universidad Nacional de San Martn, and Assistant Researcher at the National Council of Research (CONICET).