Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution / Zillah Eisenstein

Public ISBD Title : Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution Material Type: printed text Authors: Zillah Eisenstein, Author Publisher: Monthly Review Press Publication Date: 2019 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-583-67762-9 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Activism and Community Organizing Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics Feminism Feminisms Feminisms of Colour/Race and Feminism Gender and Sex Human Rights Labour, Poverty and Class Politics Race/Anti-Racism Social Movements White Supremacy Abstract: 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 anti-racist 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. Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution [printed text] / Zillah Eisenstein, Author . - [S.l.] : Monthly Review Press, 2019. ISBN : 978-1-583-67762-9 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Activism and Community Organizing Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics Feminism Feminisms Feminisms of Colour/Race and Feminism Gender and Sex Human Rights Labour, Poverty and Class Politics Race/Anti-Racism Social Movements White Supremacy Abstract: 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 anti-racist 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.

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Annihilation of Caste / B. R. Ambedkar

Public ISBD Title : Annihilation of Caste Material Type: printed text Authors: B. R. Ambedkar, Author Publisher: Verso Publication Date: 2016 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-7847-8352-5 General note: The classic analysis of the caste system with an extensive introduction by Arundhati Roy “What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Political Thought Social Movements Keywords: India  caste  inequality  Gandhi, Ambedkar Abstract: B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar – a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois – offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The world’s best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried. Arundhati Roy introduces this extensively annotated edition of Annihilation of Caste in “The Doctor and the Saint,” examining the persistence of caste in modern India, and how the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi continues to resonate. Roy takes us to the beginning of Gandhi’s political career in South Africa, where his views on race, caste and imperialism were shaped. She tracks Ambedkar’s emergence as a major political figure in the national movement, and shows how his scholarship and intelligence illuminated a political struggle beset by sectarianism and obscurantism. Roy breathes new life into Ambedkar’s anti-caste utopia, and says that without a Dalit revolution, India will continue to be hobbled by systemic inequality. Annihilation of Caste [printed text] / B. R. Ambedkar, Author . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2016. ISBN : 978-1-7847-8352-5 The classic analysis of the caste system with an extensive introduction by Arundhati Roy “What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India.” —Anand Teltumbde, author of The Persistence of Caste Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Political Thought Social Movements Keywords: India  caste  inequality  Gandhi, Ambedkar Abstract: B.R. Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar – a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois – offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The world’s best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried. Arundhati Roy introduces this extensively annotated edition of Annihilation of Caste in “The Doctor and the Saint,” examining the persistence of caste in modern India, and how the conflict between Ambedkar and Gandhi continues to resonate. Roy takes us to the beginning of Gandhi’s political career in South Africa, where his views on race, caste and imperialism were shaped. She tracks Ambedkar’s emergence as a major political figure in the national movement, and shows how his scholarship and intelligence illuminated a political struggle beset by sectarianism and obscurantism. Roy breathes new life into Ambedkar’s anti-caste utopia, and says that without a Dalit revolution, India will continue to be hobbled by systemic inequality.

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Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist / Judith Heumann

Public ISBD Title : Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist Material Type: printed text Authors: Judith Heumann, Author ; Kristen Joiner, Author Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN (or other code): 978-0-8070-1929-0 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Activism and Community Organizing Biography Biography and personal stories Disability/Ableism & Accessibility Human Rights Social Movements Abstract: Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judith Heumann began her struggle for equality early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a "fire hazard" to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher's license because of her paralysis, Judy has set precedents that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. A young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Fransisco as a leader of the Section 504 sit-in, the longest takeover of a government building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy helped to successfully pressure the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled people's rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Being Heumann is a story of one woman's lifelong battle - from streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington - to make real a world in which we all belong. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist [printed text] / Judith Heumann, Author ; Kristen Joiner, Author . - [S.l.] : Beacon Press, [s.d.]. ISBN : 978-0-8070-1929-0 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Activism and Community Organizing Biography Biography and personal stories Disability/Ableism & Accessibility Human Rights Social Movements Abstract: Paralyzed from polio at eighteen months, Judith Heumann began her struggle for equality early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a "fire hazard" to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher's license because of her paralysis, Judy has set precedents that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people. A young woman, Judy rolled her wheelchair through the doors of the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in San Fransisco as a leader of the Section 504 sit-in, the longest takeover of a government building in US history. Working with a community of over 150 disabled activists and allies, Judy helped to successfully pressure the Carter administration to implement protections for disabled people's rights, sparking a national movement and leading to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Candid, intimate, and irreverent, Being Heumann is a story of one woman's lifelong battle - from streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington - to make real a world in which we all belong.

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Can We All Be Feminists? / June Eric-Udorie

Public ISBD Title : Can We All Be Feminists? Material Type: printed text Authors: June Eric-Udorie, Editor Publisher: Penguin Random House ISBN (or other code): 978-0-14-313237-0 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Activism and Community Organizing Black Studies Black/Anti-Black Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics Disability/Ableism & Accessibility Feminisms of Colour/Race and Feminism Gender and Sex Gender Theory Human Rights Labour, Poverty and Class Political Thought Prisons and Criminalization Queer Theory Race/Anti-Racism Religion and Spirituality Sex Work Sexualities Social Movements Trans, Genderqueer and Intersex White Supremacy Women of Colour Abstract: Why do some women struggle to identify as feminists, despite their commitment to gender equality? How do other aspects of our identities - such as race, religion, sexuality, gender identity, and more - impact how we relate to feminism? Why is intersectionality so important? In challenging, incisive, and fearless essays - all of which appear here for the first time - seventeen writers from diverse backgrounds wrestle with these questions and more. A groundbreaking wrestle with these questions, and more. A groundbreaking book that elevates underrepresented voices, Can We All Be Feminists? offers the tools and pers[ective we need to create twenty-first-century feminism that is truly for all. Can We All Be Feminists? [printed text] / June Eric-Udorie, Editor . - [S.l.] : Penguin Random House, [s.d.]. ISBN : 978-0-14-313237-0 Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Activism and Community Organizing Black Studies Black/Anti-Black Colonialism, Imperialism & World Politics Disability/Ableism & Accessibility Feminisms of Colour/Race and Feminism Gender and Sex Gender Theory Human Rights Labour, Poverty and Class Political Thought Prisons and Criminalization Queer Theory Race/Anti-Racism Religion and Spirituality Sex Work Sexualities Social Movements Trans, Genderqueer and Intersex White Supremacy Women of Colour Abstract: Why do some women struggle to identify as feminists, despite their commitment to gender equality? How do other aspects of our identities - such as race, religion, sexuality, gender identity, and more - impact how we relate to feminism? Why is intersectionality so important? In challenging, incisive, and fearless essays - all of which appear here for the first time - seventeen writers from diverse backgrounds wrestle with these questions and more. A groundbreaking wrestle with these questions, and more. A groundbreaking book that elevates underrepresented voices, Can We All Be Feminists? offers the tools and pers[ective we need to create twenty-first-century feminism that is truly for all.

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Cities of Power / Goran Therborn

Public ISBD Title : Cities of Power Original title : The Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global. Material Type: printed text Authors: Goran Therborn, Author Publisher: Verso Publication Date: 2017 ISBN (or other code): 978-1-7847-8544-4 General note: “Command of history and knowledge of the real world inform Göran Therborn’s thinking, making him one of the world’s most engaging and intriguing sociologists. Cities of Power focuses our attention on the places where transforming events happen and helps us understand the current tensions between states and people, capitals and peripheries, populism and elitism, nationalism and globalism.” – Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Environment and Urban Planning Political Thought Social Movements Keywords: Urban cities  power  social movements  urban formation  city development. Abstract: Why are cities centres of power? A sociological analysis of urban politics In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Göran Therborn offers a tour of the world’s major capital cities, showing how they have been shaped by national, popular, and global forces. Their stories begin with the emergence of various kinds of nation-state, each with its own special capital city problematic. In turn, radical shifts of power have impacted on these cities’ development, in popular urban reforms or movements of protest and resistance; in the rise and fall of fascism and military dictatorships; and the coming and going of Communism. Therborn also analyzes global moments of urban formation, of historical globalized nationalism, as well as the cities of current global image capitalism and their variations of skyscraping, gating, and displays of novelty. Through a global, historical lens, and with a thematic range extending from the mutations of modernist architecture to the contemporary return of urban revolutions, Therborn questions received assumptions about the source, manifestations, and reach of urban power, combining perspectives on politics, sociology, urban planning, architecture, and urban iconography. He argues that, at a time when they seem to be moving apart, there is a strong link between the city and the nation-state, and that the current globalization of cities is largely driven by the global aspirations of politicians as well as those of national and local capital. With its unique systematic overview, from Washington, D.C. and revolutionary Paris to the flamboyant twenty- first-century capital Astana in Kazakhstan, its wealth of urban observations from all the populated continents, and its sharp and multi-faceted analyses, Cities of Power forces us to rethink our urban future, as well as our historically shaped present. Cities of Power = The Urban, the National, the Popular, the Global. [printed text] / Goran Therborn, Author . - [S.l.] : Verso, 2017. ISBN : 978-1-7847-8544-4 “Command of history and knowledge of the real world inform Göran Therborn’s thinking, making him one of the world’s most engaging and intriguing sociologists. Cities of Power focuses our attention on the places where transforming events happen and helps us understand the current tensions between states and people, capitals and peripheries, populism and elitism, nationalism and globalism.” – Felipe Fernández-Armesto, author of Our America: A Hispanic History of the United States Languages : English (eng) Descriptors: Environment and Urban Planning Political Thought Social Movements Keywords: Urban cities  power  social movements  urban formation  city development. Abstract: Why are cities centres of power? A sociological analysis of urban politics In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist Göran Therborn offers a tour of the world’s major capital cities, showing how they have been shaped by national, popular, and global forces. Their stories begin with the emergence of various kinds of nation-state, each with its own special capital city problematic. In turn, radical shifts of power have impacted on these cities’ development, in popular urban reforms or movements of protest and resistance; in the rise and fall of fascism and military dictatorships; and the coming and going of Communism. Therborn also analyzes global moments of urban formation, of historical globalized nationalism, as well as the cities of current global image capitalism and their variations of skyscraping, gating, and displays of novelty. Through a global, historical lens, and with a thematic range extending from the mutations of modernist architecture to the contemporary return of urban revolutions, Therborn questions received assumptions about the source, manifestations, and reach of urban power, combining perspectives on politics, sociology, urban planning, architecture, and urban iconography. He argues that, at a time when they seem to be moving apart, there is a strong link between the city and the nation-state, and that the current globalization of cities is largely driven by the global aspirations of politicians as well as those of national and local capital. With its unique systematic overview, from Washington, D.C. and revolutionary Paris to the flamboyant twenty- first-century capital Astana in Kazakhstan, its wealth of urban observations from all the populated continents, and its sharp and multi-faceted analyses, Cities of Power forces us to rethink our urban future, as well as our historically shaped present.

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