Zillah R. Eisenstein is an American

political theorist A political theorist is someone who engages in constructing or evaluating political theory, including political philosophy. Theorists may be academics or independent scholars. Here the most notable political theorists are categorized by their ...

and

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field ...

scholar and Emerita Professor of the Department of Politics at

Ithaca College Ithaca College is a private college in Ithaca, New York. It was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music and is set against the backdrop of the city of Ithaca (which is separate from the town), Cayuga Lake, waterfalls, and go ...

, Ithaca, New York. Specializing in political and feminist theory; class, sex, and race politics; and construction of gender, Eisenstein is the author of twelve books and editor of the 1978 collection ''

Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism ''Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism'' is a 1978 anthology about socialist feminism edited by Zillah R. Eisenstein. The sociologist Rhonda F. Levine cites the work as a "superb discussion of the socialist-feminist position ...

'', which published the

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statement. Eisenstein received her B.A. in Political Science from

Ohio University Ohio University is a Public university, public research university in Athens, Ohio. The first university chartered by an Act of Congress and the first to be chartered in Ohio, the university was chartered in 1787 by the Congress of the Confeder ...

in 1968 and her M.A. and Ph.D. (1972) from the

University of Massachusetts The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system and the only public research system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The university system includes five campuses (Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and a medica ...

. She began teaching at Ithaca College in 1973 and was tenured in 1978. Her papers (1966 to 2011) are held in the Feminist Theory Archives of

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

's Pembroke Center in Providence, Rhode Island. Eisenstein writes an opinion column for

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. In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing ''Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto'', in solidarity with the

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initiated by Russian feminists after the

Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

Works

* 1978, ed., ''Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism'' (Monthly Review Press) *1981, ''The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism'' (Longman) *1984, ''Feminism and Sexual Equality: Crisis in Liberal America'' (Monthly Review Press) *1988, ''The Female Body and the Law'' (University of California Press) *1994, ''The Color of Gender: Reimagining Democracy'' (University of California Press) *1996, ''Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century'' (Routledge)Reviews for ''Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century'': * * * * * 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)

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