Feminism for the 99% A Manifesto
Named one of Vogue’s “Most Anticipated Books of 2019” This is a manifesto for the 99 percent Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these are not what you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But aren’t they the biggest issues for the vast majority of women around the globe? Taking as its inspiration the new wave of feminist militancy that has erupted globally, this manifesto makes a simple but powerful case: feminism shouldn’t start—or stop—with the drive to have women represented at the top of their professions. It must focus on those at the bottom, and fight for the world they deserve. And that means targeting capitalism. Feminism must be anticapitalist, eco-socialist and antiracist.
Reviews
Lara Ximenes@laraximenes
“Capitalist societies have always instituted a racial division of reproductive labor. Whether via slavery or colonialism, apartheid or neo-imperialism, this system has coerced racialized women to provide such labor gratis—or at a very low cost—for their majority-ethnicity or white “sisters.” Forced to lavish care on the children and homes of their mistresses or employers, they have had to struggle all the harder to care for their own.”
Katherine@katebugs
Really approachable for a political manifesto, and one of the most comprehensively internationalist feminist texts I've read in a while.
Laura Leila Marta@lauraleila