Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption [Hardcover]

A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for womens rights. Rafia Zakarias Zakarias This necessary book is a critique of how whiteness (not white women) has infiltrated feminism and how it should be razor-bladed out of the current form.& Zakaria is a warmhearted and sharp-eyed writer who brings compassion, intelligence, and a steady drumbeat of change to redefining termfeminisma word that is old and soggy and full of white ladies yelling about things. This book is going to light fires everywhere, so if you are prone to combust, get right the hell out of the way. Intellectually resourceful and passionately argued, Rafia Zakaria's sharp and salutary essay expands and refines our ideas of freedom, justice and equity. Full of painful truths about how one kind of feminism can dominate and silence women. A fantastic book. This ambitious, elegant and brilliantly argued polemic shows us how white supremacy harms Black and brown?women, and?offers a different politics in its place. I am grateful for this book. Zakaria's frank, spirited critique of feminism's historical complicity with empire and capital,?its?appalling insularity, and its deep-seated provincialism opens onto a shimmering vision of true solidarity. This?is, quite simply, a transformative book. Uncomfortable, often coruscating, always challenging in the best ways and never less than riveting, this book is essential reading, and especially for anyone white who identifies as a feminist. Rafia Zakaria neatly dismantles the stand-on-the-shoulders-of-giants school of white feminism that in failing to understand the intertwined history of the womens movement and white supremacy continues to perpetuate the inequalities it purports to address. She doesnt just deliver punchy, corrective narratives, but achieves something at least as important in questioning where we get our ideas and encouraging critical thinking. A lucid and persuasive argument that feminism must addreslÓ,