Against Empire
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Against Empire

Feminisms, Racism and the West

  1. 257 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Against Empire

Feminisms, Racism and the West

About this book

In Against Empire, Zillah Eisenstein extends her critique of neoliberal globalization and its capture of democratic possibilities. Faced with an aggressive American empire hostage to ideological extremism and violently promoting the narrowest of its interests around the globe, Eisenstein urgently looks to a global anti-war movement to counter U.S. power. Looking beyond the distortions of mainstream history, Eisenstein detects the silencing of racialized, sex/gendered and classed ways of seeing. Against Empire insists that 'the' so-called West is as much fiction as reality, while the sexualized black slave trade emerges as an early form of globalization. 'The' West and western feminisms do not monopolize authorship; there is a need for plural understandings of feminisms as other-than-western. Black America, India, the Islamic world and Africa envision unique conceptions of what it is to be fully, 'polyversally', human. Professor Eisenstein offers a rich picture of women's activism across the globe today. If there is to be hope of a more peaceful, more just and happier world, it lies, she believes, in the understandings and activism of women today.

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Information

Publisher
Zed Books
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781842773956
eBook ISBN
9781848130500

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About this Book
  3. About the Author
  4. Critical Praise for this Book
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Preface
  8. 1: Unilateral Empire: The United Nations of America
  9. 2: Thinking to See: Secrets, Silences, and ‘Befores’
  10. 3: Humanizing Humanity: Secrets of the Universal
  11. 4: Fictions of the West: Their De-racing and De-sexing
  12. 5: Colonialism and Difference: The ‘Othering’ of Alternative Democracies
  13. 6: Nonwestern Westerners: The Difference Color Makes
  14. 7: Feminisms and Afghan Women: Before and After September 11
  15. 8: Feminisms from Elsewheres: Seeing Polyversal Humanity
  16. Index