Antagonizing White Feminism

Intersectionality’s Critique of Women’s Studies and the Academy

Noelle Chaddock editor Beth Hinderliter editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Lexington Books

Published:15th Jul '21

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Antagonizing White Feminism: Intersectionality’s Critique of Women’s Studies and the Academy pushes back against the exclusive scholarship and discourse coming out of women-centered spaces and projects, which throw up barriers by narrowly defining who can participate. Vehement resistance to using inclusive language and renaming scholarly spaces like Women’s Studies and Critical Feminism expresses itself in concerns that women are still oppressed and thus women-only spaces must be maintained. But who is a woman? What are the characteristics of a woman’s lived experience? Do affinity and a history of oppression justify exclusion?



This book shows how intersectional feminism is often underperformed and appropriated as a “woke” vocabulary by elite women who are unwilling to do the necessary emotional work around their privilege. As Trans Women, Femmes, Women of Color, Queer Women, Gender Variant, and Gender Non-Conforming scholars emerge, the heteronormative, cisgender, colonial idea of women and the feminine is rapidly under attack. The contributors believe that to engage in the necessary conversations about the oppressed performing oppression is to disrupt the exclusionary basis of monolithic understandings of the feminine. Only then can we advance the coalition needed to forge a multiracial, multicultural, queer-led, anti-imperialist feminism.

An unflinching testimonial on the need to defy and erase margins and centers in the practice of feminisms and the discipline of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies. The editors and contributors demand the decolonizing and de-whitening of structures, languages, methods, philosophies, and central actors within these spaces. -- Besi Muhonja, James Madison University
"This is a timely and provocative collection. The editors have shaped a volume that moves beyond critique and points the way towards an inclusive politics of liberation."--Marjorie Hass, Rhodes College -- Marjorie Hass, Rhodes College

ISBN: 9781498588362

Dimensions: 218mm x 154mm x 14mm

Weight: 281g

176 pages