Feminism for the World

In the years since #MeToo, misogyny, sexism and gender based violence have flooded the news and our social media timelines. Anti-privilege politics and intersectionality have entered the mainstream-systematically trolled on one end of the spectrum; embraced, to questionable ends, on the other. But what has this increased visibility entailed, other than the marketisation of the feminist struggle?

Feminism for the World argues that we have been witnessing an erasure of feminism as a long-term tradition, with its many conflicting histories and geographies of struggle elided and forgotten.

In this ground-breaking collection, eight leading international figures of contemporary feminism highlight feminist struggles and traditions from the Global South, presenting feminism as a project that is impossible without international solidarity from the West. In doing so they revive an authentic internationalism and propose paths for present and future generations.

Introduction

1. On the Feminist Movement's Desire for Theory - Verónica Gago

2. The Collection 'Femmes en luttes de tous les pays' - Françoise Vergès

3. Motherhood from an Iabá Point of View - Djamila Ribeiro

4. Communism's Promise - Lola Olufemi

5. Truly Radical - Sayak Valencia

6. Intifada and the Feminist Imagination - Zahra Ali

7. 'Of Course the Word is a Weapon' - Rama Salla Dieng

8. For Maria Mies - Silvia Federici