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Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror
Christine Delphy
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Description for Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror
Hardcover. Introduction by Roxane Gay. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 217 x 16. Weight in Grams: 338.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
337g
Number of Pages
186
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781688793
SKU
V9781781688793
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99-15
About Christine Delphy
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.
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France's most exciting feminist writer.
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