Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures (Thinking Gender)
Feminist Genealogieshas a transnational orientation, drawing together essays from places as diverse as a the Philippines, Nigeria, and Jamaica. After readingFeminist Genealogies, one is left with a feeling of hope about the possibility of democratic futures....–NWSA JournalFeminist Genealogiescalls upon us to rethink feminist theories and practices within a complex intersectional and transnational framework. In contesting prevailing notions of global feminism, which tend to depart from resistance practices crafted in the West, Alexander and Mohanty have chosen essays that create new and provocative conversations among activist women involved in important transformative political projects in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. These conversations demand that we think deeply about advanced capitalist relations and how they reproduce and are reproduced through forms of domination that are sexualized, gendered, and racialized. This timely collection of essays should stimulate new discussions about feminist political engagement and about feminist organizing practices as ways of envisioning and struggling for democratic futures.–Angela Y. Davis, University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies