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"Enemy Feminisms:" A Book Talk With Dr. Sophie Lewis
3601 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA
"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.
Featured Speakers
Dr. Sophie Lewis is a writer and an independent visiting scholar at Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Sophie is also a member of the teaching faculty of the Philadelphia branch of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. They are the author of Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation (Verso Books, 2022) and of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family (Verso Books, 2019), which Donna Haraway hailed as "the seriously radical cry for full gestational justice that I long for." Their third book, Enemy Feminisms, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books (2024). Sophie's work regularly appears in e.g., Harper's, n+1, London Review of Books, Boston Review, and the New York Times.