Feminism in Coalition: Thinking with Us Women of Color Feminism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781478019152)

In Feminism in Coalition Liza Taylor examines how US women of color feminists' coalitional politics provides an indispensable resource to contemporary political theory, feminist studies, and intersectional social justice activism. Taylor charts the theorization of coalition in the work of Bernice Johnson Reagon, Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith, the Combahee River Collective, Gloria Anzald俉, Cherr冾 Moraga, and others. For these activist-scholars, coalition is a dangerous struggle that emerges from a shared political commitment to undermining oppression and an emphasis on self-transformation. Taylor shows how their coalitional understandings of group politics, identity, consciousness, and scholarship have transformed how activists and theorists build alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, faith, and ethnicity to tackle systems of domination. Their coalitional politics enrich current discussions surrounding the impetus and longevity of effective activism, present robust theoretical accounts of political subject formation and political consciousness, and demonstrate the promise of collective modes of scholarship. In this way, women of color feminists have been formulating solutions to long-standing problems in political theory. By illustrating coalition's vitality to a variety of practical and philosophical interdisciplinary discussions, Taylor encourages us to rethink feminist and political theory.

Author: Liza Taylor
ISBN-10: 1478019158
ISBN-13: 9781478019152
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/16/2022
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2023