Left Feminisms

Jo Littler is Professor of Cultural, Media and Social Analysis at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has written on a wide range of subjects connected with culture, society and power, especially meritocracy, consumption, celebrity, and heritage, as well as gender, ‘race’, politics and environmentalism. Her books include Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and the Political (2023); with The Care Collective, The Care Manifesto (2020); Against Meritocracy: Culture, Power and Myths of Mobility (2018); Radical Consumption? Shopping For Change in Contemporary Culture (2008); and The Politics of Heritage: The legacies of ‘race’, with Roshi Naidoo (2005).

• Introduction: Speaking of feminismThe fortunes of socialist feminismNancy FraserWe do not have to be vicious, competitive, or managerialAkwugo EmejuluEvery generation has to make its own women’s movementSheila RowbothamWe want ourselves alive and debt free!Verónica GagoWhere the fires areWendy BrownDemocracy in the makingLynne SegalMunicipalism and feminism then and nowHilary WainwrightGender, race, class, ecology and peaceVron WareWe haven’t got here just on our own. It’s a conversationCarol TullochBeyond anti-welfarism and feminist social media mud-slingingAngela McRobbieIt’s not about academic life. That’s what I have to tell youGargi BhattacharyyaFeminism is a project, not an identitySylvia WalbyWe need to look at how we can build bridges and build solidarityFinn MackayThis is a collective history that belongs to all of usSophia SiddiquiAcknowledgements

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