Enemy Feminisms, Sophie Lewis
Enemy Feminisms, Sophie Lewis
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Enemy Feminisms
TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation

Author: Sophie Lewis

Narrator: Helen Phillips

Unabridged: 11 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/25/2025


Synopsis

In recent years, "white feminism" and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won't make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what Western feminism has wrought if we have any hope of building the feminist world we need.

Sophie Lewis offers an unflinching tour of enemy feminisms, from nineteenth century imperial feminists and police officers to twentieth century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today's anti-abortion and TERF feminists. Enemy feminisms exist. Feminism is not an inherent political good. Only when we acknowledge that can we finally reckon with the ways these feminisms have pushed us toward counterproductive and even violent ends. And only then can we finally engage in feminist strategizing that is truly antifascist.

At once a left transfeminist battle cry against cisness, a decolonial takedown of nationalist womanhoods, and a sex-radical retort to femmephobia in all its guises, Enemy Feminisms is above all a fierce, brilliant love letter to feminism.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sunny on May 20, 2025

Every feminist needs to read this; know thy enemy! Watch my interview with Sophie here: [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Meike on March 03, 2025

I really can't watch the world falling apart on the news while reading a non-fiction book so caught up in the narrative that is part of the problem that it misses the irony in its chastising everyone and their mother - what an ideological clusterfuck. And I say that although I fully agree with Lewis......more

Goodreads review by akemi on March 26, 2025

cw: mutilation, white supremacy, fascism, generally awful human beings Angriest fucking tract I've read since Valerie Solanas's SCUM Manifesto and Aimé Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism, and I am all for it. This is possibly the best genealogy I've read on fascism. It's not particularly in-depth, it......more

Goodreads review by Jillian on March 15, 2025

This book claps back at the sort of shallow feminism that implies every choice a woman makes is necessarily a feminist one. It calls out “enemy feminisms” throughout history and the modern day, including the white supremacist feminism of the KKK in the early twentieth century, the sort of girl-boss......more

Goodreads review by julia on February 03, 2025

against the rising tide of cynical anti-trans panic and legislative and executive threats to the baseline concept of bodily autonomy for any and all, lewis does what is required of all of us and imbues herself in historicity towards the goal of expanding the horizon of our imagination as to what our......more