Feminism for the 99%

From three of the organisers of the International Women’s Strike US: a manifesto for when ‘leaning in’ is not enough.

Recent years have seen the emergence of massive feminist mobilizations around the world, offering an alternative to the liberal feminism that has become the handmaiden of capitalism and of Islamophobia. These new movements have taken aim at neoliberalism’s economic violence, the violence of xenophobic migratory policies, as well as the violence of imperialist military interventions and of environmental disasters.

In this short book, three of the organisers of the international women’s strike in the US lay out a manifesto for an alternative. Looking to women mobilizing in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Poland, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and other countries, who have recast feminist, anti-racist, environmentalist struggles in creative ways, the authors lay out a compelling set of demands. It is a manifesto that seeks to retrieve a radical and subversive feminism, for the emergence of an international anticapitalist feminist network.

Against the ‘Lean In’ corporate feminism of Hilary Clinton and Sheryl Sandberg, – a feminism that is useful only for the women of the 1% – this manifesto outlines a feminism for the rest of us: a feminism for the 99%.

Paperback, 85 pages
Published March 5th 2019
by Verso