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THE PENGUIN BOOK OF FEMINIST WRITING - HANNAH D...

Feminism is the insight that sexism exists  and the struggle against that oppression. The
Penguin Book of Feminist Writing is a global anthology of feminist writers  edited and
introduced with a major new essay by Hannah Dawson. Beginning in the fifteenth century with
Christine de Pizan  who imagined a City of Ladies that would serve as a refuge from the
harassment of men  the book reaches around the earth and through the years to us  now  crashing
about in the fourth wave. It goes beyond the usual white  western story  encompassing also race
class  capitalism  imperialism  and other axes of oppression that intersect with patriarchy.
Alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton  who declared in Seneca Falls in 1848 the self-evident truth
'that all men and women are created equal'  we find Sojourner Truth  born into slavery in New
York in 1797  who replied 'and ain't I a woman?' Deeply sensitive to the exclusions and
exploitations of feminism itself  the anthology is as alive to the conflicts between women as
it is to the struggle against patriarchy. Maximally inclusive  and drawing on poems  novels and
memoirs  as well as roaring manifestos  The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing parts the clouds
on a constellation of feminist classics.

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