Description
In this groundbreaking book, outspoken feminist Ann Russo offers a call to action to the feminist movement to truly become the inclusive, progressive, and supportive group that it claims to be. Russo challenges feminists to address lesbian battering, the social implications of lesbian pornography, as well as racism and white privilege in feminist theories and politics. Herself a survivor of sexual assault, Russo argues that if we want the violence against women to end, we must address the issues with honesty and clarity. This is an eye-opening, unflinching look at the women's movement and the violence done to women every day.
Table of Contents
Dedication Acknowledgements Part I: Transforming Feminist Theorizing 1. If Not Now, When? Contemporary Feminist Movement to End Violence against Women 2. Lesbians, Prostitutes, Media, and Murder: The Violence Against Women and the Violence Women Commit 3. Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Battering: Homophobia, Heterosexism and Violence Part II: Truthtelling 4. Pornography's Stories: Eroticizing Inequality, Hierarchy, and Historical Atrocity 5. Lesbian Porn Stories: Rebellion or Resistance? 6. Sexual Conflicts and Contradictions: Violence, Desire, Autonomy, Freedom Part III: Interlocking Oppressions 7. Violence By Any Name: A Battered Lesbian Fights for Recognition 8. White Men Can't Kill: Racial Coding of Men's Intimate Violence Against Women 9. Taking Back Our Lives: Expanding Campus Efforts to End Sexual Violence Part IV: Transforming Feminist Resistance 10. The Struggle for Integrity in an Unjust World: Telling Our Stories 11. On Becoming an Antiracist Feminist: Strategies to Recognize and Disrupt White Privilege and Power
