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96/100Author:
Kyla Schuller, Brittney Cooper
Publisher:
Bold Type Books
Date:
October 5, 2021
A history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women whoâve continually defied them.
What The Reviewers Say
Schuller...lays bare how white feminism, rooted in binary, dated understandings of womanhood...'is a political position, not an identity,' and has no interest in disrupting the status quo, or in a reallocation of power.
The brilliance of Schuller’s work is that she reveals that white feminism isn’t simply a politics, rather it is a mandate of a biopolitics—a wielding of science and government to regulate populations—that extends into the realms of the sciences, economics, and morality that empowers 'woman' through strengthening and securing 'whiteness'.
Schuller’s paired biographical approach and her pitting of white vs. intersectional models from the outset seems to risk entrenching a polarizing binary view which is surely not her intention.
Schuller’s highly recommended feminist counterhistory is inspiring, and her arguments persuasive. She excels in letting the voices and lived experiences of women of color, trans women, and otherwise marginalized women come to the fore..
