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Burn It Down! Breanne Fahs

Burn It Down! By Breanne Fahs

Burn It Down! by Breanne Fahs


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Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution by Breanne Fahs

The most comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos, chronicling our rage and dreams from the nineteenth century to today In this landmark collection of spanning four generations of feminist activism and writing, Burn It Down is a history lesson in feminist thought, and a testament to what is possible when we're driven to the edge. Organized thematically and with substantial introductions, this is a book for the activist, the student, the too-angry and the not-angry-enough. You'll find: "Dyke Manifesto" by the Lesbian Avengers "Mini-Manual of Individualist Anarchism" by Emile Armand "Intercourse" by Andrea Dworkin "Manifesto of the Erased" by Crystal Zaragoza The "Ax Tampax Poem Feministo" from the Bloodsisters Project "Cyborg Manifesto" by Donna Haraway "TRASHGiRRRRLLLZZZ" by Elizabeth Broeder "The Manifesto of Apocalyptic Witchcraft" by Peter Grey The manifesto, feminist scholar Breanne Fahs notes, is always "on unsteady ground," raging and wanting, desiring and disdaining, promoting solidarity or individual pain, all at once. As she notes, we need manifestos in all their urgent rawness and their insistence that we have to act now, that we must face this, that the bleeding edge of rage and defiance is where new ideas are born.

Burn It Down! Reviews

"An invaluable reminder of feminism's radical and revolutionary visions. It's also, to those least inclined to read it but most in need of doing so, a powerful threat." - Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her "This exhilarating work of love and scholarship is a radiant gift to all who value liberation and justice. Reading it filled me with hope, inspiration and an electric connection to the angry, dissatisfied comrades who have come before me - as well my outraged contemporaries. A must-read, an antidote to powerlessness, a literary companion for the ages." - Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir "In an age of platitudes and etsy-fied feminist empowerment products, Breanne Fahs gives us the uncompromising, the unruly, the ungovernable, the unpalatable. This book is a fiery reminder that the world does not change, we change the world." - Jessa Crispin, author of The Dead Ladies Project "This text is important historically and as a handbook for understanding and organizing today. Fahs has put together a collection that runs from the immediate and practical to the futuristic and abstract. In doing so, she reminds us that radical feminism is both utopian vision and practical argument." - Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch "Any Gender Studies professor who isn't teaching this book is missing something important in their curriculum. ... This book is a true feminism buffet, no matter what angle is of interest to you." - Megan Volpert, PopMatters "Learned and impassioned ... irreverent, scabrous and enraged, these manifestos also happen to be full of contradictions, written in the heat of the moment and without a cool eye to posterity. But it's this rough-hewn immediacy that makes some of them so bracing to read, especially now." - Jennifer Szalai, New York Times Book Review "Powerful and inspiring" - Nina Burleigh, Air Mail "Magnificently cathartic...a reminder of the power and importance of taking a position, asserting your rights and expressing them forcefully - and that we can take strength from these positions, appreciate them, disagree, and argue the nuances with equal force and passion." - Hettie Judah, i newspaper "Burn It Down sweeps through time and across the globe." - Frankie Miren, New Socialist

About Breanne Fahs

Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. She has published widely in feminist, social science, and humanities journals and has authored four books: Performing Sex (SUNY Press, 2011), Valerie Solanas (Feminist Press, 2014), Out for Blood (SUNY Press, 2016), and Firebrand Feminism (University of Washington Press, 2018). She has also co-edited two volumes: The Moral Panics of Sexuality (Palgrave, 2013), a collection that examines cultural anxieties of "scary sex," and Transforming Contagion (Rutgers University Press, 2018). She is the founder and director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at Arizona State University, and she also works as a clinical psychologist.

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GOR011089094
9781788735384
1788735382
Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution by Breanne Fahs
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Verso Books
2020-03-24
528
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