Antagonizing White Feminism: Intersectionality's Critique of
Women's Studies and the Academy pushes back against the exclusive
scholarship and discourse coming out of women-centered spaces and
projects, which throw up barriers by narrowly defining who can
participate. Vehement resistance to using inclusive language and
renaming scholarly spaces like Women's Studies and Critical
Feminism expresses itself in concerns that women are still
oppressed and thus women-only spaces must be maintained. But who is
a woman? What are the characteristics of a woman's lived
experience? Do affinity and a history of oppression justify
exclusion? This book shows how intersectional feminism is often
underperformed and appropriated as a "woke" vocabulary by elite
women who are unwilling to do the necessary emotional work around
their privilege. As Trans Women, Femmes, Women of Color, Queer
Women, Gender Variant, and Gender Non-Conforming scholars emerge,
the heteronormative, cisgender, colonial idea of women and the
feminine is rapidly under attack. The contributors believe that to
engage in the necessary conversations about the oppressed
performing oppression is to disrupt the exclusionary basis of
monolithic understandings of the feminine. Only then can we advance
the coalition needed to forge a multiracial, multicultural,
queer-led, anti-imperialist feminism.
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