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Separate and Dominate Christine Delphy

Separate and Dominate By Christine Delphy

Separate and Dominate by Christine Delphy


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An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures. Introduction by Roxane Gay.

Separate and Dominate Summary

Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism After the War on Terror by Christine Delphy

When the French government passed a ban on the veil in 2011, surprisingly few French feminists spoke out against the racist measure. Christine Delphy - the sociologist whom Simone de Beauvoir once described as "France's most exciting feminist writer" - was one of the notable few. Castigating humanitarian liberals for demanding cultural assimilation of the women they were purporting to save, Delphy showed how criminalizing Islam in the name of feminism was fundamentally paradoxical. Dominating Others is Delphy's manifesto against this tendency, and for a fluid understanding of political identity that does not place different political struggles in a false opposition. Dismantling the absurd claim that Afghanistan was invaded to save women, alongside the notion that homosexuals and immigrants alike should reserve their self-expression for private settings, Dominating Others is a call for a true universalism that sacrifices no one at the expense of others.

Separate and Dominate Reviews

"France's most exciting feminist writer." --Simone de Beauvoir "Christine Delphy cuts through ideology like a knife. Her critical analyses of the justifications for the 'war on terror' are sharp, accurate and anger-inducing. Her ability to hone in on the contradictions that sustain racism and sexism and perpetuate exclusion is second to none. Delphy's insight and materialist approach lends her arguments a rare clarity--she deserves to be much more widely recognized in the anglophone world." --Nina Power, author of "One Dimensional Woman" "She writes with an extraordinarily clear-eyed passion ... Delphy's words are persuasive." - Telegraph

About Christine Delphy

CHRISTINE DELPHY is a French feminist writer, sociologist, and theorist. She cofounded, with Simone de Beauvoir, Nouvelles questions feministes, and is the author of Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression.

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GOR006865445
9781781688809
178168880X
Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism After the War on Terror by Christine Delphy
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Verso Books
2015-05-26
192
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