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..

After a thorough discussion of the history of women of color within the LGBTQ+ movement in the 1970s on, the author concludes with a dissection of Sheryl Sandberg and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Readers who are not well-versed in feminist theory may find themselves stumbling throughout some parts of this text. Nonetheless, this is a timely and essential piece that should find a wide audience in both public and academic libraries..

... passionate and persuasive.

Each woman in the book has made vital contributions, but some pairings come across as strained efforts to retrofit their subjects’ views to conform to 21st-century academic ideals.