feminism and racism after the war on terror
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Delphy, Christine
- Publish Year
- 2015
- Shelfmark
- WER 6 2015 - B
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, islam, LHBT, hoofddoeken, terrorisme, racisme
- Description
- Delphy is a controversial feminist thinker, denouncing the racist motivations of the government’s 2011 ban of the Muslim veil. Castigating humanitarian liberals for demanding the cultural assimilation of the women they are purporting to “save,” Delphy shows how criminalizing Islam in the name of feminism is fundamentally paradoxical. .This book is Delphy’s manifesto, lambasting liberal hypocrisy and calling for a fluid understanding of political identity that does not place different political struggles in a false opposition. She dismantles the absurd claim that Afghanistan was invaded to save women, and that homosexuals and immigrants alike should reserve their self-expression for private settings. She calls for a true universalism that sacrifices no one at the expense of others.