Against Empire - Eisenstein, Zillah

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Auteur(s) : Eisenstein, Zillah

Editeur : Bloomsbury 3pl

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/08/2004

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 260.0

Expédition : 322

ISBN : 9781842773956

In Against Empire, Zillah Eisenstein extends her critique of neoliberal globalization and its capture of democratic possibilities. Faced with an aggressive American empire hostage to ideological extremism and violently promoting the narrowest of its interests around the globe, Eisenstein urgently lo

Résumé :

Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Unilateral Empire: The United Nations of America
2. Thinking to See: Secrets, Silences and Befores
3. Humanizing Humanity: Secrets of the Universal
4. Fictions of the West: Their De-Racing and De-Sexing
5. Colonialism and Difference: The Othering of Alternative Democraices
6. Non-Western Westerners: The Difference Color Makes
7. Feminisms and Afghan Women: Before and After Sept.11
8. Feminisms from Elsewheres: Seeing Polyversal Humanity
Index

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Biographie:
Zillah Eisenstein is one of North America's most prolific anti-racist feminist writers and activists of her time. She is well recognized for her earlier activism and writing about the rape camps in Bosnia, breast cancer activism in Cuba, the impact of globalization on women workers across the globe, the racialized gender politics of affirmative action in the US, neo-liberal assaults against feminisms of all sorts and feminist struggles in the former Soviet Union, India, Turkey and Iran. Her books include Against Empire (2004), Sexual Decoys (2007), Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, ed. (1978), The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism (1981), The Color of Gender (1994) and Hatreds, Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century,(1996). Zillah Eisenstein teaches political theory and anti-racist feminisms in the Politics Department of Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York....

Sommaire:
Zillah Eisenstein is one of North America's most prolific anti-racist feminist writers and activists of her time. She is well recognized for her earlier activism and writing about the rape camps in Bosnia, breast cancer activism in Cuba, the impact of globalization on women workers across the globe, the racialized gender politics of affirmative action in the US, neo-liberal assaults against feminisms of all sorts and feminist struggles in the former Soviet Union, India, Turkey and Iran. Her books include Against Empire (2004), Sexual Decoys (2007), Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, ed. (1978), The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism (1981), The Color of Gender (1994) and Hatreds, Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century,(1996). Zillah Eisenstein teaches political theory and anti-racist feminisms in the Politics Department of Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York....