Spinning And Weaving
Radical Feminism for the 21st Century
In the 21st century, radical feminist theory and activism is more important than ever. Exciting new radical feminist theory is being shared online, only to be buried by the evanescent nature of the internet. Hence, this new anthology, which brings together the best in contemporary radical feminist thought. Spinning and Weaving: Radical Feminism for the 21st Century seeks to raise up the voices of women around the world writing or creating from a radical feminist perspective, including scholars, journalists, political activists and organizers, bloggers, writers, poets, artists, and independent thinkers. This anthology especially seeks to amplify the voices of Women of Color, who are most likely to be silenced, marginalized, or ignored, and their experience denied or minimized. Relevant to contemporary radical feminism, this collection explores themes around the intersection of sex, race, and other axes of oppression; violence against women and girls; sex trafficking and the sex industry; pornography; sexuality; lesbian feminism; the environment; political activism; feminist organizing; women-only spaces and events; liberal versus radical feminism; transgenderism; and many other topics of interest and import to radical feminist theory and practice.
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Spinning and Weaving’s Contributing Editor, Elizabeth Miller, is a Chicago feminist activist who runs the Chicago Feminist Salon and co-organized the Women in Media Conference, a radical feminist conference held in Chicago in 2018. In recent years, she worked on the successful campaigns to get the U.S. Equal Rights Amendment ratified in Illinois and to enact Illinois House Bill 40, which ensured that abortion will remain legal in Illinois even if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. Among other projects, she is currently working with the U.S. radical feminist organization Feminists in Struggle to lobby Congress to pass legislation protecting women’s sex-based rights and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and gender non-conforming people, organizing two other radical feminist conferences in the United States, and running several large radical feminist social media pages and groups.
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Table of Contents
DEDICATION
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A Note on the Text
Introduction: Radical Feminism for the 21st Century and Beyond
Elizabeth Miller
PART I: FOUNDATIONAL RADICAL FEMINIST THEORY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Chapter 1: On Twenty-First Century Patriarchy, and the Place of Women's Hearts in Women's Movement
Renee Gerlich
Chapter 2: Radical Feminist Activism in the 21st Century
Janice G. Raymond
Chapter 3: Radical Feminism: The Survival of Women
Tamarack Verrall
Chapter 4: Radical Feminism and the Actualization of Woman
Brid
Chapter 5: “Feminism Allowed You to Speak”: Reinforcing Intergenerational Feminist Solidarity Against Sophisticated Attacks
Yagmur Uygarkizi
Chapter 6: Therapeutic Ideology as a Way of Bringing Women Back Two Hundred Years
Dana Vitálošová
Chapter 7: Ecocide, Biocide, Femicide… Omnicide. The Final Stage of Patriarchy
Agnes Wade
Chapter 8: Female Separatism: The Feminist Solution
Sekhmet She-Owl
Chapter 9: To My Radical Feminist Sisters
Jessica Taylor
Chapter 10: Self & Sisterhood in a Narcissistic World
Thistle Pettersen
PART II: INTERSECTIONAL FEMINISM
Chapter 11: Women Aren’t Men: A Radical Feminist Analysis of Indigenous Gender Politics
Cherry Smiley
Chapter 12: Intersectionality Hijacked
Raquel Rosario Sánchez
Chapter 13: Oil and Water: Young Migrant Women and the Promises of Liberal Feminism
Bec Wonders
Chapter 14: #SayHerName Speaks Out—Are You Listening?: Intersectionality in the Era of Erasure
Danielle Whitaker
Chapter 15: Racy Sex, Sexy Racism: Porn from the Dark Side
Gail Dines
PART III: PORNOGRAPHY AND PROSTITUTION AS OPPRESSION OF WOMEN
Chapter 16: Harm and Its Denial: Sex Buyers, Pimps, and the Politics of Prostitution, with Particular Attention to German Legal Prostitution
Melissa Farley and Inge Kleine
Chapter 17: “But What About Feminist Porn?”: Examining the Work of Tristan Taormino
Rebecca Whisnant
Chapter 18: Andrea Dworkin: Teller of Hard Truths
Janice G. Raymond and H. Patricia Hynes
Chapter 19: Genderberg Prostitution FAQ and Prostitution Is Not Work: The Crib Sheet
Samantha Berg
Chapter 20: “The Handmaid’s Tale” Offers a Terrifying Warning, But the Hijacking of Feminism is Just as Dangerous
Gail Dines
PART IV: LESBIAN RADICAL FEMINISM
Chapter 21: From Bars to Parades to Michfest and Beyond: Lesbian Feminist Organizing and Women-Only Space
Tamarack Verrall
Chapter 22: Lesbians Are Under Attack
BigBooButch (a.k.a. Parker Wolf)
Chapter 23: My Year on Planet Lesbian
Giovanna Capone
Chapter 24: Shaming the Butches
Tristan Fox
Chapter 25: The Last Tomboy
Tristan Fox
Chapter 26: We Were Once Amazons: Mourning and Rebuilding Our Lost Lesbian-Feminist Communities
Ann E. Menasche
PART V: WOMEN’S SEXUALITY AS A RADICAL FEMINIST ISSUE
Chapter 27: Understanding Heterosexuality: “Eroticising Subordination” and Colonisation, A Lesbian Feminist Perspective
Angela C. Wild
Chapter 28: My Sex-Positive Memoirs: How I Learned to Stop Drinking Kool-Aid And Start Judging
Nina Paley
PART VI: ONLINE EXPLOITATION AND OPPRESSION OF WOMEN
Chapter 29: Creative Control: Woman as Intellectual Property
Genevieve Gluck
Chapter 30: A Chatroom of Our Own: Building Online Spaces by and For Women in the Era of Big Tech Censorship
M. K. Fain
PART VII: “TRANSGENDER” POLITICS AND THE MEN’S SEXUAL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
Chapter 31: Against a Hierarchy of Oppressions
Linda Bellos
Chapter 32: Birth of a Radical Feminist
Jamae Hawkins
Chapter 33: Yes, Women Have Vaginas. But That Is Not the Sum Total of What We Are
The Chicago Feminist Salon
Chapter 34: Men’s Sexual Rights versus Women’s Sex-Based Rights
Sheila Jeffreys
Chapter 35: Symptoms as Symbols
Lisa Marchiano
Chapter 36: Queer Politics
Sheila Jeffreys
Chapter 37: Gender Colonialism
Nina Paley
Chapter 38: A New Radical Feminist Approach to Challenging Gender Identity Ideology: The Feminist Amendments to the U.S. Equality Act
Ann E. Menasche
PART VIII: RADICAL FEMINIST FICTION, POETRY, PLAYS, MEMOIR, AND LITERARY ANALYSIS
Chapter 39: The Power of Sisterhood Voices
Alyssa Ahrabare
Chapter 40: Endangered = at risk
Giovanna Capone
Chapter 41: The Parents
Nineveh Cehack
Chapter 42: eternal until you are full
Tristan Fox
Chapter 43: Passionate Stone
Tristan Fox
Chapter 44: Who Wins the War of Love in Shakespearian England?
Julia Miller