"Enemy Feminisms:" A Book Talk With Dr. Sophie Lewis

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Penn Bookstore

3601 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19104

This location is ADA accessible

GSWS is hosting a book talk for Dr. Sophie Lewis' new book, Enemy Feminisms, moderated by Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser. 

"Where would we be without Sophie Lewis?" asks Judith Butler: "In a more impoverished political world." Join GSWS visiting scholar Sophie Lewis at the Penn bookstore on her new book's publication day, for a reading, refreshments, and conversation with Dr Lewis and Dean Sarah Banet Weiser (author of Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny). 

Billed as “a provocative compendium of the feminisms we love to dismiss," from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today’s anti-abortion and TERF feminists, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation makes the case for the bold, liberatory feminist politics we’ll need to stand against fascism, nationalism, and weaponized cisness in the months and years to come. Published by Haymarket, Lewis's follow-up to Full Surrogacy Now and Abolish the Family is a left transfeminist battlecry, a decolonial takedown of nationalist womanhoods, a sex-radical retort to femmephobia in all its guises, and -- above all -- a love letter to feminism.  

 

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