Synopses & Reviews
In this book, Zillah Eisenstein continues her unforgiving indictment of neoliberal imperial politics. She charts its most recent militarist and masculinist configurations through discussions of the Afghan and Iraq wars, violations at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the 2004 US Presidential election, and Hurricane Katrina. She warns that women's rights rhetoric is being manipulated, particularly by Condoleeza Rice and other women in the Bush administration, as a ploy for global dominance and a misogynistic capture of democratic discourse. However, Eisenstein also believes that the plural and diverse lives of women will lay the basis for an assault on these fascistic elements. This new politics will both confound and clarify feminisms, and reconfigure democracy across the globe.
Review
"Zillah Eisenstein has won deserved praise for her trenchant indictments of gender and political issues. Her latest book tackles both of these topics head-on." The New Statesman
Review
"Smart and witty, sobering yet uplifting, this book is essential reading for all of us committed to social justice." Purnima Mankekar, Ms. Magazine (read the entire Ms. Magazine review)
Synopsis
In this book, Zillah Eisenstein continues her indictment of neoliberal imperial politics. She charts its most recent militarist and masculinist configurations through discussions of the Afghan and Iraq wars, violations at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib, the 2004 US Presidential election, and hurricane Katrina. She warns that women's rights rhetoric is being manipulated as a ploy for global dominance and a misogynistic capture of democratic discourse. However, Eisenstein also believes that the radically plural and diverse lives of women will lay the basis for an assault on these fascistic elements. This new politics will both confound and clarify feminisms, and reconfigure democracy for the globe.
About the Author
Zillah Eisenstein is Professor of Politics at Ithaca College in New York.
Table of Contents
War as Gender in Another Form * Women in the Wars of/on Terror, or Re-sexing the Wars of/on Terror * Global Capital and Torture, or Anti-democratic Wars * Racial Diversity and the Crisis of Neoliberalism * Feminisms in and against War