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Feminists speak about important political issues because the lives of women are complex. Recognising how power works and in whose favour underlies many of these discussions.
In this compelling and clear account of political structures, Betty McLellan asks important questions. What is truth and how do we understand it, especially when some say, that’s not my truth. Are there competing truths?
Modern and postmodern approaches to democracy impinge on issues of power and truth, especially with increasingly individualistic as opposed to collective approaches to politics. Populism has been used by politicians to shore up votes and sway entire sections of the voting public while identity politics has fractured that same voting public.
Is democracy dead or are there ways of fruitfully salvaging democracy? Could feminism be the answer?
Betty McLellan’s analysis and arguments are fundamentally about truth, its importance for a functioning democracy and radical feminists’ insistence on telling it.
—Kara Dansky, US lawyer and author of The Reckoning: How Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls.
8 OCTOBER 2024 | ISBN 9781922964168 | Paperback | 216 pages | 152 x 228 mm
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1. Trauma Trails, Recreating Song Lines by Judy Atkinson (2002)
2. The Women’s Pool edited by Lynne Spender (2021)
3. Doublethink by Janice G Raymond
4. Seven Sisters of the Pleiades by Munya Andrews (2004)
5. “He Chose Porn Over Me” edited by Melinda Tankard Reist (2022)
6. Transsexual Transgender Transhuman by Jennifer Bilek (2024)
7. Penile Imperialism by Sheila Jeffreys (2022)
8. On the Meaning of Sex by Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2023)
9. The Tower by Carol Lefevre (2022)
10. The End of Patriachy by Robert Jensen (2017)
11. Harvesting Darkness by Robin Morgan (2023)
12. The Rust Red Land by Robyn Bishop (2023)
13. Haifa Fragments khulud khamis (2015)
14. Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating by Caitlin Roper (2022)
15. Not Sacred, Not Squaws by Cherry Smiley (2023)
16. Being and Being Bought by Kajsa Ekis Ekman (2013)
17. Detransition: Beyond Before and After by Max Robinson (2021)
18. Transgender Body Politics by Heather Brunskell-Evans (2020)
19. Invisible Women of Prehistory Judy Foster (2013)
20. Oneness vs the 1% by Vandana Shiva (2018)
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#WeStandWithUshaAkella
Men’s rights are alive and well in India.
We have been subject to a mass outpouring from Men’s Rights Activists who have targeted Usha Akella’s book I Will Not Bear You Sons and placing one star reviews on the Amazon India website and other sites in protest of its publication.
MRAs have taken exception to a line quoted in online book reviews (regarding aborting male fetuses) and have not looked at the poem in its full context. If they had looked at the context, it is the speaking character answering her tyrannical father-in-law who wants the speaker to have only sons.
Usha’s poetry is brave and brilliant. We stand behind this book and trust you will too.