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Burqas and empire, again

The lead up to the Afghan war in post-9/11 used the rhetoric of “women’s rights” to mobilise the American public. We were supposed to save their women from the Taliban and their “backward ways”. Laura Bush used the language of women’s rights to wrap the bombs of war with supposed democratic purpose. But not then, […]

By ZIllah Eisenstein | Published on August 22, 2013 at 12:55 am

Trayvon Martin an unjust US system, white female jurors and Florida justice

I am white and female, like the almost-white jury that acquitted Zimmerman of murdering Trayvon Martin. But I am also an anti-racist
feminist. My head spins. I grew up in a family dedicated to civil rights and lived in communities that ostracized us because my father taught at Black Atlanta University, or when my mother worked […]

By ZIllah Eisenstein | Published on July 18, 2013 at 8:12 am

New feminism should stand together with the new proletariats against female exploitation and violence

“Brazil has a female president and a police chief, and staffs many of its political stations with women, promoting women’s rights. And, yet “public rapes”, especially of poor women, are increasing. Similar truths exist in India. The brutal rape and death of a paramedical student in a moving bus in New Delhi mobilised massive anti-rape […]

By ZIllah Eisenstein | Published on July 3, 2013 at 2:05 am