In the spirit of On Tyranny, a ten-point plan for how feminist principles can be harnessed to combat totalitarianism, authoritarianism, and fascism.
FEMINISM VS. FASCISM:
Ten Tactics to Topple Tyrants
by Mona Eltahawy
Mariner/HarperCollins US, February 2027
Far-right authoritarians have been rising to power around the world. Each election won and each rung of power snatched from the people is a sobering reminder of what’s at stake when dangerous ambition and aspirational tyranny get real.
Solutions that stick have been fleeting, despite the growing outrage and protests.
Feminist author, activist, and noted firebrand Mona Eltahawy makes a strident case for a new approach. She argues ten feminist practices as an unstoppable force against fascism because, where fascism benefits and empowers the few, feminism frees everybody. Feminist-inspired principles like “Be savage and dangerous » and “Target all tyrants,” in fact, have constantly nudged us towards a freer world. Now laying out these principles as an actionable ten-point plan, Eltahawy empowers a new generation of citizens and reignites action in those whose fury has felt aimless.
Pocket-sized and ready to return to again and again, FEMINISM VS. FASCISM offers a new way to fight.
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning feminist author, commentator and disruptor of patriarchy. Her first book Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution targeted patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa and her second book The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls took her disruption worldwide. Eltahawy’s essays and op-eds have been published in The Washington Post, The Guardian (UK), and The New York Times, and she has appeared as a guest commentator on the BBC, CNN, PBS, Al Jazeera, NPR and dozens of other television and radio networks. She writes the newsletter FEMINIST GIANT, which has more than 23,000 subscribers in 172 countries.
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