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Feminism Beyond Left and Right

Feminism Beyond Left and Right

Lawford-Smith, Holly

Hardcover

Women's Studies

ISBN10: 1509564799
ISBN13: 9781509564798
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: Jul 28 2025
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.81 Depth: 8.55
Language: English
An unquestioned assumption of contemporary politics is that the left owns minority groups, in the sense that the left, exclusively, champions the interests of minorities and is for that reason owed the allegiance of minorities. This, in turn, gives rise to the sense of dissonance created by right-wing dissenters--the black social conservative, the gay ultra-nationalist, the female libertarian, the poor pro-capitalist. This same dissonance exists for women and feminism, creating a default assumption that a feminist is a left-wing woman. We don't make a distinction between left-wing feminists and feminists; we don't need to.

There's nothing a philosopher loves more than an unquestioned assumption, and in this book political philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith systematically dismantles the assumption that feminism is an exclusively left-wing project. Once dismantled, the path is clear to a new set of questions. Who counts as a feminist in the first place? If women from anywhere on the political spectrum can be feminists, who is it that feminists should--or shouldn't--be working with? And what can be said, more generally, about the ethics of alliances and coalitions?

In Feminism Beyond Left and Right Lawford-Smith makes the case for non-partisan feminism, feminism outside the constraints of the left-right political spectrum, a feminism for and about all women as women.

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