The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion

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    Editor(s): Jessie Kindig

    Publisher: Verso

    Year: 2020

    Format: Paperback

    Size: 416 pages

    ISBN: 9781788739269

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An unprecedented collection of feminist voices from four millennia of global history.

Throughout written history and across the world, women have protested the restrictions of gender and the limitations placed on women’s bodies and women’s lives. People—of any and no gender—have protested and theorised, penned manifestos and written poetry and songs, testified and lobbied, gone on strike and fomented revolution, quietly demanded that there is an “I” and loudly proclaimed that there is a “we.” The Verso Book of Feminism chronicles this history of defiance and tracks it around the world as it develops into a multivocal and unabashed force.

Global in scope, The Verso Book of Feminism shows the breadth of feminist protest and of feminist thinking, moving through the female poets of China’s Tang Dynasty to accounts of indigenous women in the Caribbean resisting Columbus’s expedition, British suffragists militating for the vote to the revolutionary pétroleuses of the 1848 Paris Commune, the first-century Trung sisters who fought for the independence of Nam Viet to women in 1980s Botswana fighting for equal protection under the law, from the erotica of the sixth century and the ninteenth century to radical queer politics in the twentieth and twenty-first.

The Verso Book of Feminism is a weapon, a force, a lyrical cry, and an ongoing threat to misogyny everywhere.


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“A perfect bedside book for feminists. A commonplace book that is anything but commonplace.” Alix Kates Shulman

Book Details

Editor: Jessie Kindig
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781788739269
Size: 416 pages
Publisher: Verso
Year: 2020

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