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The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism
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An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who've continually defied them Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many. As award-winning scholar Kyla Schuller argues, their white feminist politics dispossess the most marginalized to liberate themselves. In The Trouble with White Women , Schuller brings to life the two-hundred-year counter history of Black, Indigenous, Latina, poor, queer, and trans women pushing back against white feminists and uniting to dismantle systemic injustice. These feminist heroes such as Frances Harper, Harriet Jacobs, and Pauli Murray have created an anti-racist feminism for all. But we don't speak their names and we don't know their legacies. Unaware of these intersectional leaders, feminists have been led down the same dead-end alleys generation after generation, often working within the structures of racism, capitalism, homophobia, and transphobia rather than against them. Building a more just feminist politics for today requires a reawakening, a return to the movement's genuine vanguards and visionaries. Their compelling stories, campaigns, and conflicts reveal the true potential of feminist liberation. An Entropy Magazine Best Nonfiction Book of 2020-2021, The Trouble with White Women gives feminists today the tools to fight for the flourishing of all.
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"She excels in letting the voices and lived experiences of women of color, trans women, and otherwise marginalized women come to the fore."
"Undertaking the kind of critical labor necessary for engendering a truly liberatory feminism, Kyla Schuller is doing the work."
"Schuller's lucid and accessible analysis of her subjects' lives and careers reveals that long before the concept of intersectionality was formally articulated, there were feminists fighting for it."
"Schuller has succeeded in her aim to give full recognition to many, distinguished women whose contribution has been overlooked, although her rewriting of the Sojourner Truth narrative may meet resistance ..."
"Schuller offers a refreshing contrast to a particular strand of 21st-century white feminism that willfully divorces human responsibility—arguably, to prevent the white male discomfort and anger that would threaten these white feminists' power and popularity—for these systems ..."
"Readers who are not well-versed in feminist theory may find themselves stumbling throughout some parts of this text."
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