Feminism vs. Fascism

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.

"We have to be ferocious now, wasting no time. In Feminism vs. Fascism, Mona Eltahawy is showing us the places in our own resistance where we can be louder, braver, clearer, and more faithful in our revolutionary labor. As we turn and face this moment, let our yes be our war cry." — adrienne maree brown, author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good"Patriarchy is not fascism's symptom. It is fascism's engine. Eltahawy proves it from Cairo to Warsaw to Chicago to Kabul. 'All tyrants go home.' Four words I have not stopped thinking about." — Rabih Alameddine, National Book Award-winning author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)"Feminism vs. Fascism is an essential read for anyone invested in the struggle for democracy. Part-pragmatic political field guide and part-vivid memoir, Eltahawy effectively challenges conventional anti-fascist tactics and strategies, and shows readers how and why fascism cannot be dismantled without centering feminism and intersectional justice." — Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her"This book may save your life. Bless the brave and brilliant Mona Eltahawy for giving us clear, inspiring feminist marching orders to win against fascism." — V (formerly known as Eve Ensler), author of Reckoning, The Apology and The Vagina Monologues"The activist Mona Eltahawy, who starts all her speeches with the statement, 'Fuck the patriarchy!' says that we have to defy, disobey, and disrupt. There’s no other way." — Isabel Allende, in her memoir The Soul of a Woman, praising Mona Eltahawy"Just read it and WOW." — Hillary Clinton, in Wikileaks, reacting to Eltahawy’s 2012 Foreign Policy cover story on women and revolution"Hozier quoted Egyptian author Mona Eltahawy’s judgement that systemic oppression of women is the world’s 'oldest form of occupation,’ saying that ‘ever since hearing [Eltahawy] speak in Dublin, I wanted to explore that thought in a piece.'" — The Harvard Crimson, on the Irish musician Hozier explaining the origins of his viral protest song "Swan Upon Leda"