Selin Genc reviews Ewa Majewska’s ‘Feminist Antifascism’, and considers Majewska’s inspirational arguments for a “flexible, inclusive and inventive” feminism in the context of recent events in Turkey.
Extract: 'The feminist lens cracks open the binary assumptions that dominant politics have been shaped by, such as the private vs public, and encourages a transversal and horizontal politics. Importantly, the resistance envisioned by Majewska, though for the marginalised and the dissident, is a popular one; popular in the sense that it is for and by the people, though who these ‘people’ are is a crucial point, which must be properly addressed by considering not the ‘masses’ but the ‘many’, who are ‘heterogenous, embodied, and contextualised’.
