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Enemy Feminisms

TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation

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Enemy Feminisms

By: Sophie Lewis
Narrated by: Helen Phillips
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In recent years, "white feminism" and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won't make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what Western feminism has wrought if we have any hope of building the feminist world we need.

Sophie Lewis offers an unflinching tour of enemy feminisms, from nineteenth century imperial feminists and police officers to twentieth century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today's anti-abortion and TERF feminists. Enemy feminisms exist. Feminism is not an inherent political good. Only when we acknowledge that can we finally reckon with the ways these feminisms have pushed us toward counterproductive and even violent ends. And only then can we finally engage in feminist strategizing that is truly antifascist.

At once a left transfeminist battle cry against cisness, a decolonial takedown of nationalist womanhoods, and a sex-radical retort to femmephobia in all its guises, Enemy Feminisms is above all a fierce, brilliant love letter to feminism.

©2024 Sophie Lewis (P)2025 Tantor Media Gender Studies LGBTQ+ Studies Politics & Government Social Sciences Sociology Social justice
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the idea is good- accounting for historical right wing and oppressive feminist movements and advocates for hundreds of years. but it is very badly done, the pretentious theory and all may play well in academia but it means there is lengthy analysis of the harms of reproducing a speech attributed to Sojourner Truth, which most people wouldn't have heard of, and which the author concedes is still worth studying. it is as though a book took the time to write a fevered denunciation of art critics who like a 17th century painting, and conceding it is a good painting. that is, the author has a limited sense of perspective, and is writing more for people lost in the details of history than a general public.

just a weak book

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