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Zillah Eisenstein is Professor of Politics at Ithaca College in New York
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Best for:
I’m not sure who the target audience of this book is. I’d think it’d be someone like me, but it didn’t work for me.

In a nutshell:
A series of essays. I really can’t describe it as I’m not quite sure what I just read.

Worth quoting:
“Suffering is more than economic and will remain grossly unequal as long as it is dealt with in this partial fashion.”

“There is no one kind of feminism, although it is often represented as though there were, and that one is too often assumed to be white, western-hetero, and liberal or neoliberal.”

Why I chose it:
I saw it in a bookshop and thought it looked interesting.

Review:
This is referred to as a book, but it feels more like a loose collection of essays. And despite the title, discussions of abolition and socialism do not come up as often as I would like.

Eisenstein has some interesting thoughts to share, but each essay (or chapter) is both too long and too short. They feel a bit too long because I’m not sure what the main thesis is for some - they end up being a bit disorganized for my taste, though each feels very similar, so I think it is more the author’s style as opposed to being bad writing, if that makes sense. Basically, I think it will work for lots of people but it just doesn’t work for me. And too short because I think there is more to each topic to be explored, but they don’t quite get there for me.

One part I appreciate, and something I think some popular socialist movements in recent times have not gotten right, is that she makes it very clear that the problems of society won’t be solved if we just address economic inequality. Racism, misogyny, anti-gay, anti-trans, and ableism are all intertwined.

I think this book might work if each of the essays were sort of an intro or jumping off point for going into deeper study and discussion of the main topic. But as a collection it just wasn’t for me.

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ASKelmore | Feb 22, 2022 |
Zillah Eisenstein, one of North America's most eminent and politically engaged
feminist thinkers, continues her unrelenting critique of neoliberal globalization
and its capture of democratic possibilities in Against Empire. She is deeply
critical of President George W. Bush's headlong recourse to the use of war, the
neocon embrace of American empire as something positive for humanity, and
the accelerated imposition on the rest of the world of the most negative
aspects of American capitalism. Zillah Eisenstein urgently asks that we build a
global anti-war movement to counter US power.

She believes that it is essential to see beyond the distortions inherent in
mainstream presentations of history, and to detect the silencing of racialized,
sex/gendered and classed ways of seeing. At the heart of her book is the
insistence that the so-called West is as much fiction as reality; as much
appropriation as originary; as exclusionary as it is promissory. Eisenstein
contends that the sexualized black slave trade was an early form of globalization.
The West and western feminisms have no monopoly of authorship; we
need to pluralize the understanding of feminisms as other-than-western. The
West has debts to places elsewhere, as much as places elsewhere have debts
to the Enlightenment. Black America, India, the Islamic world and Africa
envision unique conceptions of what it is to be fully, ‘polyversally’, human.
Professor Eisenstein gives her readers a rich picture of women's activism
across the globe today. If there is to be hope of a more peaceful, more just and
happier world, it lies, she believes, in the understandings and activism of
women today.

This book is written for all people who wish to examine more deeply what
the West really is, how it is seen by the rest of the world, and the hidden
histories that make up human complexity and diversity below the waterline of
conventional narratives.
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JerryMonaco | Jan 6, 2013 |

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