Furthermore, I did wonder if the authors’ language is accessible to all those who they may be trying to reach. It’s short, so the authors don’t really provide deep or thorough methods for putting these ideals into practice, and at the same time I figure we can read more books or read up on organizing and policy to help us enact their vision.

I would highly recommend this book to anyone who wants a quick, intelligent, and fiery takedown of capitalist exploitation and the importance of ensuring that feminism transcends replicating oppressive class and race dynamics.

Everyone else remains stuck in the basement.” By definition, the principal beneficiaries are those who already possess considerable social, cultural, and economic advantages. In treating women simply as an ‘underrepresented group,’ its proponents seek to ensure that a few privileged souls can attain positions and pay on a par with the men of their own class. Rather than seeking to abolish social hierarchy, it aims to ‘diversify’ it, ‘empowering’ ‘talented’ women to rise to the top. Its real aim is not equality, but meritocracy.

“Centered in the global North among the professional-managerial stratum, is focused on ‘leaning-in’ and ‘cracking the glass ceiling.’ Dedicated to enabling a smattering of privileged women to climb the corporate ladder and the ranks of the military, it propounds a market-centered view of equality that dovetails perfectly with the prevailing corporate enthusiasm for ‘diversity.’ Although it condemns ‘discrimination’ and advocates ‘freedom of choice,’ liberal feminism steadfastly refuses to address the socioeconomic constraints that make freedom and empowerment impossible for the large majority of women. Here’s a quote from the beginning of the book that addresses the problem with liberal feminism, a common form of feminism within contemporary society: I loved this book for its bold and uncompromising call for moving beyond a form of feminism that serves white and/or wealthy women. Written by three of the organizers of the international women’s strike, Feminism for the 99% draws from women’s mobilizing efforts in countries such as Mexico, Spain, Brazil, and more to expand feminism to dismantle economic, environmental, and racist injustice. A powerful manifesto that compels us to make our feminism more revolutionary, specifically by targeting capitalism as a primary root of women’s oppression.

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