{"product_id":"antagonizing-white-feminism-9781498588362","title":"Antagonizing White Feminism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAntagonizing White Feminism: Intersectionality's Critique of Women's Studies and the Academy pushes back against the exclusive scholarship and discourse coming out of women-centered spaces and projects, which throw up barriers by narrowly defining who can participate. Vehement resistance to using inclusive language and renaming scholarly spaces like Women's Studies and Critical Feminism expresses itself in concerns that women are still oppressed and thus women-only spaces must be maintained. But who is a woman? What are the characteristics of a woman's lived experience? Do affinity and a history of oppression justify exclusion?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book shows how intersectional feminism is often underperformed and appropriated as a woke vocabulary by elite women who are unwilling to do the necessary emotional work around their privilege. As Trans Women, Femmes, Women of Color, Queer Women, Gender Variant, and Gender Non-Conforming scholars emerge, the heteronormative, cisgender,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unflinching testimonial on the need to defy and erase margins and centers in the practice of feminisms and the discipline of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. The editors and contributors demand the decolonizing and de-whitening of structures, languages, methods, philosophies, and central actors within these spaces. -- Besi Muhonja, James Madison University\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a timely and provocative collection. The editors have shaped a volume that moves beyond critique and points the way towards an inclusive politics of liberation.\"--Marjorie Hass, Rhodes College -- Marjorie Hass, Rhodes College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword: Beverly Guy-Sheftall \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: “Antagonizing White Feminism.” Noelle Chaddock and Beth Hinderliter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. “White Feminism is the Only Feminism.” Noelle Chaddock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. “Unsettling Dominant Femininities: Promissory Notes Towards an Antiracist Feminist College.” Piya Chatterjee \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. “Repo Fem.” Timothy W. Gerken\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. “White Innocence as a Feminist Discourse: Intersectionality, and the 2016 US Presidential Elections.” Sara Salem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. “Building Kinfulness.” Beth Hinderliter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. “Trans Youth in Argentina.” Pablo Ariel Scharagrodsky and Magalí Pérez Riedel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. “To Be New, Black, Female and Academic: Renaissance of Womanism within Academia.” Vanessa Drew-Branch, Sonyia Richardson, and Laneshia R. Conner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8. “A Rejection of White Feminist Cisgender Allyship: Centering Intersectionality.” Beth Hinderliter and Noelle Chaddock","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040852672855,"sku":"9781498588362","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781498588362.jpg?v=1750948063","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/antagonizing-white-feminism-9781498588362","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}