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The Radical Women Manifesto: Socialist Feminist Theory, Program And Organizational Structure

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I was looking for something that would give me hope for the feminist movement...and I found it. The intro was easy to read and educational. I was intriqued by the historical information, the analysis and the "what to do" platform. And since it's written by women who are doing grassroots organizing, it's down to earth reading.

I thought feminism only appealed to white women and upper class women but this book changed my perspective as a queer young urban Chicana. I joined in 2002 and since then Radical Women has given me the encouragement and confidence to do the movement building it takes for real radical women's leadership. My sisters' and I want you to check this book out and get in contact with us. Let's work together!

I wanted to learn more about socialist feminist theory and organizational structure based on feminism. This book told me nothing -- and the writing is clinical. Pretty much the whole thing is based on the works of Marx and Engels, which is strange because lots of women have written on this topic and written far more recently on it, even from a Marxist perspective. There are lists of goals and demands but they seem to be written off the top of the writers' heads. The demands are very general, philosophical and even naive. I'm sympathetic with what this group was trying to do but I can't imagine this book being of practical use to any organization. It reads like something that was hammered out to fulfill a grant.

Excerpt taken at random:

We demand: Legal recognition of oppressed people's right to self-defense, including community-organized mobilization against police brutality, racist and Nazi assaults, attacks on abortion clinics, queer-bashing, strikebreaking raids, and other forms of repressive violence or terrorism.

P.S. The binding glue was poor and chunks of pages fell out after a few minutes of reading it.

what can i say?

the person whowrote this book obviously has no idea of what they were talking about.

poor arguments that dont make sense, factual errors, conclusions that have obviously been jumped to with a minimum of thought.

this book is simply boring, after the first few dully ranting pages.