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A review by mo_mentan
Anarchism: The Feminist Connection by Peggy Kornegger
4.0
not the biggest fan.
there was nothing much new for me. some ideas of holistic and dynamic worldview and change, but sprinkeled with bio-essentialism. second wave white feminism stuff, no intersectional approach and no acknowledgement of the - as far as i know - mostly indigenous knowledge that founds these ideas of gradual, fluctual change and a holistic, spiritual view of individual, community and the earth. how can one talk about feminism and change and leave out the black and queer movements which have always been so much more revolutionary than white feminism? it also lacked a more analytic basis or materialist viewpoint imo (although i'm not a fan of strict materialism at all).
the most interesting thing to me was the historical section about the paris commune and the spanish civil war, i don't know much about those yet.
the german translation that i read was horrificly bad. it was published in 2018 by an leftist (i actually believe even an anarchist) group but uses the generic masculine for a text translated from english - that is not only a choice, but almost hard to do (especially when translating a text that rightfully underlines the importance of language to the construction of reality).
there was nothing much new for me. some ideas of holistic and dynamic worldview and change, but sprinkeled with bio-essentialism. second wave white feminism stuff, no intersectional approach and no acknowledgement of the - as far as i know - mostly indigenous knowledge that founds these ideas of gradual, fluctual change and a holistic, spiritual view of individual, community and the earth. how can one talk about feminism and change and leave out the black and queer movements which have always been so much more revolutionary than white feminism? it also lacked a more analytic basis or materialist viewpoint imo (although i'm not a fan of strict materialism at all).
the most interesting thing to me was the historical section about the paris commune and the spanish civil war, i don't know much about those yet.
the german translation that i read was horrificly bad. it was published in 2018 by an leftist (i actually believe even an anarchist) group but uses the generic masculine for a text translated from english - that is not only a choice, but almost hard to do (especially when translating a text that rightfully underlines the importance of language to the construction of reality).