Verso Feminist Classics
40% off all the books in our Feminist Classics series until Sunday, August 20th.
Our Feminist Classics series brings together foundational left feminist texts at the intersection of class and race, addressing debates that continue into the present day.
Books in the series include Michele Wallace's Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, Kumari Jayawardena's seminal text on transnational feminism, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World, and Christine Delphy's classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism, Close to Home.
We are excited to announce two new important additions to the series; Elizabeth Martínez’s radical Latina perspective on race, liberation, and identity — with a foreword by Angela Davis; and Lynne Segal's memoir of a life in feminism and politics, Making Trouble.
All the books in our Feminist Classics series are 40% off until August 20th at 23.59 (Pacific Time). Click here to activate your discount.
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[book-strip index="1" style="buy"]Elizabeth Martínez’s unique Chicana voice has been formed through over thirty years of experience in the movements for civil rights, women’s liberation, and Latina/o empowerment. In De Colores Means All of Us, Martínez presents a radical Latina perspective on race, liberation and identity. She describes the provocative ideas and new movements created by the rapidly expanding US Latina/o community as it confronts intensified exploitation and racism. Includes a foreword by Angela Davis.
[book-strip index="2" style="buy"]Delving into her own life and those who left their mark on it, Lynne Segal journeys through time to consider her generation of female dreamers, the experiences that formed them, what they have left to the world, and how they are remembered in a period when pessimism pervades public life. Searching for answers, she studies her family history, sexual awakening, and ethnicity, as well as the peculiarities of the time and place that shaped her political journey, with all its urgency, significance, pleasures and absurdities.
[book-strip index="3" style="buy"]For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. In this engaging and well-researched survey, Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the specific struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against poverty and inequality.
[book-strip index="4" style="buy"]Originally published in 1978, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman caused a storm of controversy. Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power, demonstrating the ways in which a genuine female subjectivity was blocked by the traditional myths of black womanhood. With a foreword that examines the debate the book has sparked between intellectuals and political leaders, as well as what has—and, crucially, has not—changed over the last four decades, Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman continues to be deeply relevant to current feminist debates and black theory today.
[book-strip index="5" style="buy"]How have ideas about white women figured in the history of racism? Vron Ware argues that they have been central, and that feminism has, in many ways, developed as a political movement within racist societies. Dissecting the different meanings of femininity and womanhood, Beyond the Pale examines the political connections between black and white women, both within contemporary racism and feminism, as well as in historical examples like the anti-slavery movement and the British campaign against lynching in the United States. Beyond the Pale is a major contribution to anti-racist work, confronting the historical meanings of whiteness as a way of overcoming the moralism that so often infuses anti-racist movements.
[book-strip index="6" style="buy"]Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women’s liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists, whether “bourgeois” and heterosexual women are retrogressive members of the women’s movement, and how best to struggle against the multiple oppressions women endure.
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