Zillah Eisenstein

Zillah R. Eisenstein is an American political theorist and gender studies scholar and Emerita Professor of the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York.[1] Specializing in political and feminist theory; class, sex, and race politics; and construction of gender,[1] Eisenstein is the author of twelve books and editor of the 1978 collection Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, which published the Combahee River Collective statement.[2]

Zillah Eisenstein
Eisenstein in 2016
Years active1972-present
TitleEmerita Professor of Politics
Academic background
Alma materOhio University
University of Massachusetts
Academic work
InstitutionsIthaca College

Eisenstein received her B.A. in Political Science from Ohio University in 1968 and her M.A. and Ph.D. (1972) from the University of Massachusetts.[3][4] She began teaching at Ithaca College in 1973 and was tenured in 1978.[4] Her papers (1966 to 2011) are held in the Feminist Theory Archives of Brown University's Pembroke Center in Providence, Rhode Island.[5]

Eisenstein writes an opinion column for Al Jazeera.[6]

In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Feminist Anti-War Resistance initiated by Russian feminists after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[7]

Works

  • 1978, ed., Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism (Monthly Review Press)[8]
  • 1981, The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism (Longman)[9]
  • 1984, Feminism and Sexual Equality: Crisis in Liberal America (Monthly Review Press)[10]
  • 1988, The Female Body and the Law (University of California Press)[11]
  • 1994, The Color of Gender: Reimagining Democracy (University of California Press)
  • 1996, Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century (Routledge)[12]
  • 1996, Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism and the Lure of Cyberfantasy (NYU Press)
  • 2001, Manmade Breast Cancers (Cornell University Press)
  • 2007, Sexual Decoys, Gender, Race and War in Imperial Democracy (Zed Press, London; Palgrave, U.S.)
  • 2007, Against Empire: Feminisms, Race and the West (Zed Press, London; Palgrave, U.S.)
  • 2009, The Audacity of Races and Genders, A Personal and Global Story of the Obama Campaign (Zed Press, London; Palgrave, U.S.)
  • 2019, Abolitionist Socialist Feminism, Radicalizing the Next Revolution (Monthly Review Press)

References

  1. "Zillah Eisenstein". Ithaca College. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  2. Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta (2020-07-20). "Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Free". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
  3. "ZILLAH EISENSTEIN" (PDF). Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  4. "Zillah Eisenstein". The Ithaca Journal. 1978-05-31. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
  5. "Feminist Theory Archive Collections | Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  6. "Zillah Eisenstein | Al Jazeera News | Today's latest from Al Jazeera". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
  7. "Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto". Specter Journal. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
  8. Reviews for Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism:
  9. Reviews for The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism:
  10. Reviews for Feminism and Sexual Equality: Crisis in Liberal America:
  11. Revies for The Female Body and the Law:
  12. Reviews for Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century:
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