Feminism in Coalition: Thinking with US Women of Color Feminism - Softcover

Taylor, Liza

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1478019158 ISBN 13: 9781478019152

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2022

Synopsis

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 Anzaldúa, Cherríe 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.

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About the Author

Liza Taylor is Assistant Professor of Political Science at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478019158
• ISBN 13: 9781478019152
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304