Feminist Antifascism: Counterpublics of the Common

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In this exciting, innovative work, Polish feminist philosopher Ewa Majewska maps the creation of feminist counterpublics around the worldspaces of protest and ideas, community and common struggle, that can challenge the emergence of fascist states as well as Western democratic public spheres populated by atomized, individual subjects. Drawing from Eastern Europe and the Global South, Majewska describes the mass labor movement of Polands Solidarnosc in 1980 and contemporary feminist movements across Poland and South America, arguing that it is outside of the West that we can see the most promising left futures. Majewska argues for the creation of a feminist publica politics and a world held in commonand outlines the tactics this political goal demands, arguing for a feminist political theory that does not reproduce the same forms of domination it seeks to overcome.

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Ewa Majewska looks at the ways that feminist spaces resist the tide of fascism. * Lit Hub (75 Nonfiction Books You Should Read This Summer) *
A central figure in Polish feminism. -- Amia Srinivasan * New Yorker *

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Ewa Majewska is a feminist philosopher of culture and an Affiliated Fellow at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) in Berlin, Germany.