Burn It Down! | Fahs, Breanne

Kurze Beschreibung
The most comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos, chronicling our rage and dreams from the nineteenth century to today.

Lange Beschreibung
In this landmark collection spanning three centuries and four waves of feminist activism and writing, Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. The manifestoraging and wanting, quarreling and provokinghas always played a central role in feminism, and its the angry, brash feminism we need now. Collecting over 75 manifestos from around the world, Burn It Down! is a rallying cry and a call to action. Among this confrontational sisterhood, youll find Dyke Manifesto by the Lesbian Avengers The Ax Tampax Poem Feministo by the Bloodsisters Project The Manifesto of Apocalyptic Witchcraft by Peter Grey Simone de Beauvoirs pro-abortion Manifesto of the 343 Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female by Frances M. Beal The Futurist Manifesto of Lust by Valentine de Saint-Point Zapatista Womens Revolutionary Laws Riot Grrrl Manifesto by Bikini Kill Anarchy and the Sex Question by Emma GoldmanBreanne Fahs argues that we need manifestos in all their urgent rawnesstheir insistence that we have to act now, that we must face this, that the bleeding edge of rage and defiance ignites new and revolutionary possibilities is where new ideas are born.