Separate and Dominate
Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror
Seiten
2015
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-78168-879-3 (ISBN)
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-78168-879-3 (ISBN)
Introduction by Roxane Gay.
When the French government passed a ban on the veil in 2011, surprisingly few French feminists spoke out against the racist measure. Christine Delphy--the sociologist who Simone de Beauvoir once described as "France's most exciting feminist writer"--was one of the notable few. Castigating humanitarian liberals for demanding cultural assimilation of the women they were purporting to "save," Delphy showed how criminalizing Islam in the name of feminism was fundamentally paradoxical.
Dominating Others is Delphy's manifesto against this tendency, and for a fluid understanding of political identity that does not place different political struggles in a false opposition. Dismantling the absurd claim that Afghanistan was invaded to save women, alongside the notion that homosexuals and immigrants alike should reserve their self-expression for private settings, Dominating Others is a call for a true universalism that sacrifices no one at the expense of others.
When the French government passed a ban on the veil in 2011, surprisingly few French feminists spoke out against the racist measure. Christine Delphy--the sociologist who Simone de Beauvoir once described as "France's most exciting feminist writer"--was one of the notable few. Castigating humanitarian liberals for demanding cultural assimilation of the women they were purporting to "save," Delphy showed how criminalizing Islam in the name of feminism was fundamentally paradoxical.
Dominating Others is Delphy's manifesto against this tendency, and for a fluid understanding of political identity that does not place different political struggles in a false opposition. Dismantling the absurd claim that Afghanistan was invaded to save women, alongside the notion that homosexuals and immigrants alike should reserve their self-expression for private settings, Dominating Others is a call for a true universalism that sacrifices no one at the expense of others.
CHRISTINE DELPHY is a French feminist writer, sociologist, and theorist. She cofounded, with Simone de Beauvoir, Nouvelles questions féministes, and is the author of Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.6.2015 |
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Übersetzer | David Broder |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 344 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78168-879-6 / 1781688796 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78168-879-3 / 9781781688793 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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