vândut de libris.ro
An intergenerational dialogue on the meaning of feminist antifascism. Anti-Fascism Against Machismo collects & continues a conversation begun by Tammy Kovich (as Petronella Lee) in 2019. Four feminist, antifascist revolutionaries jump off from each others reflections & bring the particularities of their varied contexts to bear on one central problem: What has & will a womens war against fascism look like? Kovich kicks things off with a probing look at the central importance of gender to fascism, & its particular formulations in todays far right. She continues by examining the historic role of women as partisans in three antifascist wars of the 1930s & 40s-Ethiopia, Spain, & Yugoslavia-contrasting this with the restrictive image of antifa as a young, Euro man of a particular subcultural aesthetic & antifascist activity as not much broader than street fights. Finally, she builds on this to propose what an antifascism that takes a fight against patriarchal domination-on the right & the left-seriously. Butch Lee, a white woman who worked in support of Black revolutionary movements & who sought to elaborate a vision of what a womens revolutionary movement must be, responded to Kovichs zine a few months later. The 80-year-old Amazon theorist brings her life of experience & study to bolster Kovichs main points, while asking questions about some limits she sees in the work. From 1950s white, small town New Jersey to the civil rights struggle in Southside Chicago, refugees from Tsarist pogroms to the fighters of the Black Liberation Army, Lees most autobiographical public writing-the last before her death in 2021-questions Kovichs framing of antifascism as a limited struggle that must expand to meet the needs of a properly revolutionary politics. While Kovichs work focuses on the position of revolutionary women, stuck between misogynist fascists & macho antifascism, Butch Lee reframes the discussion around the position of white women: the reproducers of the white race, colonized for the role, yet so often participants, willing collaborators in the extension & preservation of white supremacy. Lee asks what it means to see todays fascists as transcending their previous role as fringe cosplayers, now becoming something more intractable & more deeply rooted in the changes occurring in global patriarchal capitalism. Veronica L. then offered her own contribution, advancing the conversation by seeing the ways in which the analyses of fascism offered by Lee
Preț:
Vânzător: Libris.ro
Brand: Tammy Kovich
