Can We All Be Feminists?: Seventeen writers on intersectionality, identity and finding the right way forward for feminism - Softcover

Eric-Udorie, June

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349009872 ISBN 13: 9780349009872

Publisher: Virago Press Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

'The intersectional feminist anthology we all need to read' (Bustle) edited by a remarkable and inspiring twenty-year-old activist who the BBC named one of 100 'inspirational and influential women' of 2016.

'Not just a key read but a mandatory one' Stylist (September Top Ten Books)

Why is it difficult for so many women to fully identify with the word 'feminist"'? How do our personal histories and identities affect our relationship to feminism? Why is intersectionality so important? Can a feminist movement that doesn't take other identities like race, religion, or socioeconomic class into account even be considered feminism? How can we make feminism more inclusive?

In Can We All Be Feminists?, seventeen established and emerging writers from diverse backgrounds wrestle with these questions, exploring what feminism means to them in the context of their other identities-from a hijab-wearing Muslim to a disability rights activist to a body-positive performance artist to a transgender journalist. Edited by the brilliant, galvanizing, and dazzlingly precocious nineteen-year-old feminist activist and writer June Eric-Udorie, this impassioned, thought-provoking collection showcases the marginalized women whose voices are so often drowned out and offers a vision for a new, comprehensive feminism that is truly for all.

Including essays by: Soofiya Andry, Gabrielle Bellot, Caitlin Cruz, Nicole Dennis-Benn, Brit Bennett, Evette Dionne, Aisha Gani, Afua Hirsch, Juliet Jacques, Wei Ming Kam, Mariya Karimjee, Eishar Kaur, Emer O'Toole, Frances Ryan, Zoé Samudzi, Charlotte Shane and Selina Thompson.

'Amid debates about the direction of the modern feminist movement, Can We All Be Feminists?, edited by June Eric-Udorie, presents new writing from 17 women on finding the right way forward, taking into account the intersections between different forms of prejudice' Laura Bates, Guardian

About this title

About the Author

June Eric-Udorie is a twenty-year-old writer and feminist activist. Named Elle UK's "Female Activist of the Year" for 2017, she has been included on lists of influential and inspiring women by the BBC, the Guardian, and more. A co-founder of "Youth for Change", an initiative that works to combat female genital mutilation and forced marriage around the world, her advocacy has taken her to classrooms, the Women of the World Festival, the United Nations, and more. In 2015, she spearheaded a successful campaign to overturn the British government's decision to remove feminism from the nationally mandated A-level (high school) politics syllabus; more recently, she raised funds to take five hundred underprivileged girls and young women of color to see the film Hidden Figures. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Independent, New Statesman, the Telegraph, ESPN The Magazine, and Fusion, among others. She is currently in her first year at Duke University, where she is a recipient of the University Scholars merit scholarship, established by Melinda French Gates, and a Human Rights Scholar at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. Follow her on Twitter @juneericudorie.

Edition details

• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349009872
• ISBN 13: 9780349009872
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288