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Zillah Eisenstein, The Feminist Wire

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator Zillah Eisenstein has been a Professor of Politics at Ithaca College in New York for the past 35 years and is now “Distinguished Scholar in Residence” there. Besides her recently published THE AUDACITY OF RACES AND GENDERS: A PERSONAL AND GLOBAL STORY OF THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN (2009, Zed Press, London; Palgrave, U.S.), her books include among others: SEXUAL DECOYS, GENDER, RACE AND WAR IN IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY (London, Zed Press; New York, Palgrave, 2007); AGAINST EMPIRE, ibid.; HATREDS: RACIALISED AND SEXUALIZED CONFLICTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY, (Routledge, 1996); GLOBAL OBSCENTITIES: PATRIARCHY, CAPITALISM AND THE LURE OF CYBERFANTASY (NYU PRESS, 1996); and MANMADE BREAST CANCERS, (Cornell Univ. Press, 2001). David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

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Dreaming of a (Feminist) Revolution

By Zillah Eisenstein, The Feminist Wire Guest Commentator

There are many feminisms today to choose between so when women - young and old, black and brown and white, hetero/cis/trans - do not seem enthusiastic about Hillary as the established choice, why the surprise? She is not running on a sufficiently complex feminist agenda.

This is an offering for after “Super-Tuesday’s” outcome…when many of us are beginning to think that we will have to vote for Hillary Clinton as the…

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