An essential comprehensive account of what white feminism is and an empowering manifesto for
revolution For readers of Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About
Race Caroline Criado Perez's Invisible Women and Florence Given's Women Don't Owe You Pretty
'Make room beside Audre Lorde and Angela Davis on your shelves' Chicago Review of Books'A book
to make you stop and think' Mishal Husain national broadcaster 'Necessary warm-hearted and
sharp-eyed... This book is going to light fires everywhere so if you are prone to combust get
right the hell out of the way' Lit Hub Most Anticipated Books of 2021 Feminism is supposed to
be the fight for the freedom and equality of women. And in the past 200 years it has made
incredible gains: paving the way for women to advance economically handing them back control
of their own bodies and advocating for their needs and their experiences. But not for all
women. Since its very beginning mainstream feminism has catered to a particular group of
women: middle class cis-gendered Western and above all white. And the exclusion of everyone
outside this narrow category is not merely an oversight a coincidence a slip. It is baked
into the way feminism works. This must change. White supremacy is killing feminism. Until all
of us are free and equal in society none of us are. The power to transform it lies with each
one of us. It starts with understanding how we got here in the first place. Eye-opening timely
and impossible to ignore Against White Feminism traces the connections between feminism and
white supremacy from the earliest stirrings of the women's suffrage movement to the 'fourth
wave' we see today demonstrating how an idea based on equality has been corrupted by prejudice
and exploitation from the start. Rafia Zakaria issues a powerful call to arms to every reader
to build a new kind of feminism which will light the path to true emancipation for all.
