Separate and Dominate
Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror
Christine Delphy author David Broder translator
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Verso Books
Published:2nd Jun '15
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures
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.
France's most exciting feminist writer. -- Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9781781688793
Dimensions: 210mm x 140mm x 18mm
Weight: 344g
186 pages