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A personal and political manifesto vying for an antiracist socialist feminist movement of movementsThe world is burning, flooding, and politically exploding, to the point where it's become clear that neoliberal feminism-the kind that aims to elect The First Woman President-will never be enough. In this book, Zillah Eisenstein asks us to consider what it would mean to thread "socialism" to feminism; then, what it would mean to thread "abolitionism" to socialist feminism. She asks all of us, especially white women, to consider what it would mean to risk everything to abolish white supremacy, to uproot the structural knot of sex, race, gender, and class growing from that imperial whiteness. If we are to create a revolution that is totally liberatory, we need to pool together in a new working class, building a radical movement made of movements.Eisenstein's manifesto is built on almost half a century of her antiracist socialist feminist work. But now, she writes with a new urgency and imaginativeness. Eisenstein asks us not to be limited by reforms, but to radicalize each other on differing fronts. Our task is to build bridges, to connect disparate and passionate people across aisles, state lines, picket lines, and more. The genius force demanding that we abolish white supremacy can also create a new "we" for all of us-a humanity universally accepting of our complexities and differences. We are in uncharted waters, but that is exactly where we need to be.

A new understanding of humanity and feminism from the starting point of breast health is the ultimate goal of Zillah Eisenstein's political memoir of her family's experience with breast cancer. The well-known feminist author argues that politics...

Zillah Eisenstein presents a wide-ranging critique of neoliberal globalization and of American foreign policy. Insisting that 'the' West is as much fiction as reality, she explores plural understandings of feminisms in other cultures and looks to the global anti-war movement to counter US power.

A topical commentary on the state of politics, gender and race from a high profile and well-respected feminist theorist and activist. It presents 25 conceptual 'frames' of critical analysis placing the US presidential election in the context of: the global economic crisis, the positions of China and India, Islamic feminisms and new secularisms.

The New York Times devotes the cover of its magazine to America's declining interest in politics and its obsession with money, finance, and the markets. Exposing the purported democratic effect of new media for the global mirage it is, this book shows how transnational capital and its patriarchal obsessions threaten us all.

Eisenstein tracks developments such as racialized ethnic and gender conflict; the new male democracies of eastern Europe; the new Democrats of the Clinton era - exploring the 'politics of hate.'