Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought

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Black, anticolonial, anti-racist feminist thought is often sidelined in mainstream discourses that transform feminism into simplistic calculations of how many women are in positions of power. This unique book sets the record straight. Through interviews with key scholars, including Angela Y. Davis and Silvia Federici, Bhandar and Ziadah present a serious and thorough discussion of race, class, gender, and sexuality not merely as intersections to be noted or additives to be mixed in, but as co-constitutive factors that must be reckoned with if we are to build effective coalitions. Collectively, these interviews trace the ways in which black, Third World and post-colonial feminists as well as indigenous women have created new ways of seeing, new theoretical frameworks for analysing political problems, and new ways of relating to one another.

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The contributors may not agree on every detail, and neither may you, but if you are looking for a thought-provoking, academic overview, covering all aspects of revolutionary feminism, you have found it' -- Stella Dadzie, author of The Heart of the Race
Provides reassuring and informative perspectives on the lifelong journey of effecting change in complex socio-economic and political systems. Their compilation of interviews engages activists who have been building political coalitions across a range of intersecting feminisms: queer, Indigenous, anti-racist, anti-imperial. The questions they pose reveal a depth of research across a wide arc of topics. -- Taylor Le Melle * Mousse Magazine *
Collaborative to its core, [Revolutionary Feminisms] invites scholars, activists and researchers to join in, pick up the threads of struggles that came before us and weave them into new contexts. -- Sophia Siddiqui * Race & Class *
'Revolutionary feminisms' are not a theoretical framework, but are made and unmade through lived experience, struggle and political consciousness. There has never been a more important time to take heed of the message in this publication, delivered through a chorus of powerful voices: revolutionary feminisms need to become a revolution of solidarity. -- Helene Kazan * Radical Philosophy *

Author Bio

Brenna Bhandar is a Senior Lecturer at SOAS, School of Law. She is the author of Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land and Racial Regimes of Ownership. She is co-editor (with Jon Goldberg-Hiller) of Plastic Materialities: Legality, Politics and Metamorphosis in the work of Catherine Malabou and (with Davina Bhandar) Reflections on Dispossession: Critical Feminisms. She is an active supporter of the BDS campaign.Rafeef Ziadah is a Palestinian human rights activist and academic. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at SOAS, University of London. She is a member of the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott Campaign and the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee secretariat and is a founding member of the international Israeli Apartheid Week, held on more than 240 campuses yearly. She is also an established performance poet.