Het werk van Zillah Eisenstein is een integraal onderdeel van haar politieke activisme, waarbij ze vijfentwintig jaar lang feministische theorie in Noord-Amerika beoefent. Ze schrijft om te delen en te leren met, en van, anderen die zich inzetten voor politieke strijd voor sociale rechtvaardigheid. Haar onderzoek volgt de opkomst van het neoliberalisme, de ondergang van de liberale democratie en onderzoekt de imperialistische globalisering. Eisenstein verkent haar inspanningen om coalities op te bouwen over de verschillen tussen vrouwen heen, van raciale scheidslijnen in de VS tot de behoeften van vrouwen in diverse mondiale contexten.
The book delves into the complexities of racialized ethnic and gender conflicts, examining the emergence of new male democracies in Eastern Europe and the evolving political landscape during the Clinton era. It provides a critical analysis of the politics of hate, highlighting how these dynamics influence contemporary societal issues and political movements.
The New York Times devotes the cover of its magazine to America's declining interest in politics and its obsession with money, finance, and the markets. Exposing the purported democratic effect of new media for the global mirage it is, this book shows how transnational capital and its patriarchal obsessions threaten us all.
A personal and political manifesto vying for an antiracist socialist feminist movement of movements. The world is burning, flooding, and politically exploding, to the point where it's become clear that neoliberal feminism--the kind that aims to elect The First Woman President--will never be enough. In this book, Zillah Eisenstein asks us to consider what it would mean to thread "socialism" to feminism; then, what it would mean to thread "abolitionism" to socialist feminism. She asks all of us, especially white women, to consider what it would mean to risk everything to abolish white supremacy, to uproot the structural knot of sex, race, gender, and class growing from that imperial whiteness. If we are to create a revolution that is totally liberatory, we need to pool together in a new working class, building a radical movement made of movements. Eisenstein's manifesto is built on almost half a century of her antiracist socialist feminist work. But now, she writes with a new urgency and imaginativeness. Eisenstein asks us not to be limited by reforms, but to radicalize each other on differing fronts. Our task is to build bridges, to connect disparate and passionate people across aisles, state lines, picket lines, and more. The genius force demanding that we abolish white supremacy can also create a new "we" for all of us--a humanity universally accepting of our complexities and differences. We are in uncharted waters, but that is exactly where we need to be