The Color of Gender

Reimaging Democracy

Author: Zillah R. Eisenstein
ISBN: 9780520084223

In this provocative volume, Zillah Eisenstein uncovers the hidden sexual and racial politics of the past decade. Beginning where she left off in her award-winning book The Female Body and the Law, Eisenstein takes the reader on a feminist-inspired road trip, traveling from the thicket of recent abortion decisions to the revolutions of 1989 to the murky chambers of the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings. Along the way, she enunciates a wholly original conception of individual privacy and sexual rights. Eisenstein brings a range of topics to her discussion: the L.A. riots, crack babies, Murphy Brown, political correctness, the 1992 presidential election, the Gulf War. She seeks to redirect our thinking about democracy away from universal conceptions that mask racial and gender oppression to the specific realities of women and people of color. A respect for multiple differences--as represented in the needs of women of color and their bodies--is, she says, essential to inclusive universa

Publisher: University of California Press
Publish Date: 1994

Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / General, Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory, Social Science / Gender Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Politics/Human Rights)