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The Resource Against white feminism : notes on disruption, Rafia Zakaria

Against white feminism : notes on disruption, Rafia Zakaria

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Summary
"A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women's rights. Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria expertly argues, those promises have been proven empty and white feminists have leant on their racial privilege and sense of cultural superiority. Drawing on her own experiences as an American Muslim woman, as well as an attorney working on behalf of immigrant women, Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism that forges true solidarity by bringing Black and brown voices and goals to the fore. Ranging from the savior complex of British feminist imperialists to the condescension of the white feminist-led "development industrial complex" and the conflation of sexual liberation as the "sum total of empowerment," Zakaria presents an eye-opening indictment of how whiteness has contributed to a feminist movement that solely serves the interests of upper middle-class white women"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 244 pages
Contents
  • Introduction: At a wine bar, a group of feminists
  • In the beginning, there were white women
  • Is solidarity a lie?
  • The White Savior Industrial Complex and the Ungrateful Brown Feminist
  • White feminists and feminist wars
  • Sexual liberation is women's empowerment
  • Honor killings, FGC, and white feminist supremacy
  • "I built a white feminist temple"
  • From deconstruction to reconstruction
  • Conclusion: On fear and futures
Isbn
9781324006619
Instance
Label
Against white feminism : notes on disruption
Title
Against white feminism
Title remainder
notes on disruption
Statement of responsibility
Rafia Zakaria
Creator
Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women's rights. Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria expertly argues, those promises have been proven empty and white feminists have leant on their racial privilege and sense of cultural superiority. Drawing on her own experiences as an American Muslim woman, as well as an attorney working on behalf of immigrant women, Zakaria champions a reconstruction of feminism that forges true solidarity by bringing Black and brown voices and goals to the fore. Ranging from the savior complex of British feminist imperialists to the condescension of the white feminist-led "development industrial complex" and the conflation of sexual liberation as the "sum total of empowerment," Zakaria presents an eye-opening indictment of how whiteness has contributed to a feminist movement that solely serves the interests of upper middle-class white women"--
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Provided by publisher
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DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1978-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Zakaria, Rafia
Dewey number
305.42
Index
index present
LC call number
HQ1155
LC item number
.Z35 2021
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Feminism
  • Feminism
  • Women's rights
  • Women, White
  • Minority women
Label
Against white feminism : notes on disruption, Rafia Zakaria
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: At a wine bar, a group of feminists -- In the beginning, there were white women -- Is solidarity a lie? -- The White Savior Industrial Complex and the Ungrateful Brown Feminist -- White feminists and feminist wars -- Sexual liberation is women's empowerment -- Honor killings, FGC, and white feminist supremacy -- "I built a white feminist temple" -- From deconstruction to reconstruction -- Conclusion: On fear and futures
Control code
on1196174978
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 244 pages
Isbn
9781324006619
Lccn
2021011715
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1196174978
Label
Against white feminism : notes on disruption, Rafia Zakaria
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: At a wine bar, a group of feminists -- In the beginning, there were white women -- Is solidarity a lie? -- The White Savior Industrial Complex and the Ungrateful Brown Feminist -- White feminists and feminist wars -- Sexual liberation is women's empowerment -- Honor killings, FGC, and white feminist supremacy -- "I built a white feminist temple" -- From deconstruction to reconstruction -- Conclusion: On fear and futures
Control code
on1196174978
Dimensions
22 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
x, 244 pages
Isbn
9781324006619
Lccn
2021011715
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1196174978

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