Rafia Zakaria
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Las mujeres blancas de clase media alta han sido las únicas que han ocupado durante mucho tiempo el lugar de «expertas» en feminismo. Han presidido organizaciones feministas multinacionales y han escrito gran parte de lo que consideramos el canon feminista, propugnando la liberación y la satisfacción sexual, la inclusión LGBTQ y la solidaridad racial, todo mientras marcan el lenguaje del movimiento mismo y la agenda de objetivos a cumplir. Una...
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"A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women's rights. Elite white women have branded feminism, promising an apolitical individual empowerment along with sexual liberation and satisfaction, LGBTQ inclusion, and racial solidarity. As Rafia Zakaria expertly argues, those promises have been proven empty and white feminists have leant on their racial privilege and sense of cultural superiority. Drawing on her...
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"A memoir of Karachi through the eyes of its women. Rafia Zakaria's Muslim-Indian family immigrated to Pakistan from Bombay in 1962, feeling the situation for Muslims in India was precarious and that Pakistan represented enormous promise. And for some time it did. Her family prospered, and the city prospered. But in the 1980s, Pakistan's military dictators began an Islamization campaign designed to legitimate their rule--a campaign that particularly...