A comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos, chronicling rage and dreams from the nineteenth century to the present day
A landmark collection spanning two centuries and four waves of feminist activism and writing, Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. The manifesto—raging, demanding, quarreling and provocative—has always been central to feminism, and it’s the angry, brash feminism we need now.
Collecting over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, Burn It Down! is a rallying cry and a call to action. Among this confrontational sisterhood, you’ll find the Dyke Manifesto by the Lesbian Avengers, The Ax Tampax Poem Feministo by the Bloodsisters Project, The Manifesto of Apocalyptic Witchcraft by Peter Grey, Simone de Beauvoir’s pro-abortion Manifesto of the 343, Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female by Frances M. Beal, and many more.
Feminist academic and writer Breanne Fahs argues that we need manifestos in all their urgent rawness, for it is at the bleeding edge of rage and defiance that new ideas are born.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781788735384
Media Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Date: 03-24-2020
Pages: 528
Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.50(d)
About the Author
Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. She has published widely in feminist, social science, and humanities journals and has authored five books: Performing Sex; Valerie Solanas; Out for Blood; Firebrand Feminism; and Women, Sex, and Madness. She has also coedited two volumes: The Moral Panics of Sexuality and Transforming Contagion. She is the Founder and Director of the Feminist Research on Gender and Sexuality Group at Arizona State University, and she also works as a clinical psychologist in private practice.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Introduction. The Bleeding Edge: On the Necessity of Feminist Manifestos - Breanne Fahs A Note on Source Material
I. QUEER/TRANS Introduction to Queer/Trans 1. I Want a President (1992) - Zoe Leonard 2. Queer Nation Manifesto: Queers Read This (1990) - ACT UP 3. The Woman Identified Woman (1970) - Radicalesbians 4. Dyke Manifesto (1992) - Lesbian Avengers 5. Do Approach (excerpt) (1971) - Jill Johnston 6. Gay Liberation Front Manifesto (excerpt) (1971) - Gay Liberation Front 7. The Effeminist Manifesto (1973) - Steven F. Dansky, John Knoebel and Kenneth Pitchford 8. Undoing Borders: A Queer Manifesto (excerpt) (2007) - HAVOQ 9. The Transfeminist Manifesto (excerpt) (2001) - Emi Koyama 10. Pajama Femme Manifesto (2011) - Katie Tastrom 11. Lesbian Mafia Manifesto (2007) - The Lesbian Mafia 12. Boyfunk Manifesto (2002) - Boyfunk 13. Manifesto for a New Feminist Presence (2007) - Eskalera Karakola
II. ANTICAPITALIST/ANARCHIST Introduction to Anticapitalist/Anarchist 14. Anarchy and the Sex Question (1896) - Emma Goldman 15. Call to Women’s International Strike (2017) - Ni Una Menos (Not One Less) 16. Wages against Housework (1974) - Silvia Federici 17. The Singles Manifesto (1974) - Marie Edwards 18. Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation (excerpt) (2015) - Laboria Cuboniks 19. Anarchafeminist Manifesto (1982) - Anarchafeminist International 20. American Beasts (2017) - D.M.D. 21. Radical Women Manifesto Platform (excerpt) (1967/2001) - Radical Women 22. Refugia: Manifesto for Becoming Autonomous Zones (2002) - subRosa 23. Altwoke Manifesto (2017) - Anonymous 24. A Feminist Manifesto for the 21st Century (2010) - Lindsey German and Nina Power
III. ANGRY/VIOLENT Introduction to Angry/Violent 25. I Am as Strong as Any Man (1851) - Sojourner Truth 26. Redstockings Manifesto (1969) - Redstockings 27. The Feminist Manifesto (1914) - Mina Loy 28. SCUM Manifesto (1967) - Valerie Solanas 29. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (excerpt) (1970) - Shulamith Firestone 30. Intercourse (excerpt) (1987) - Andrea Dworkin 31. Nope (2016) - E. Jane 32. Grand Canyon (2004) - Ani DiFranco
IV. INDIGENOUS/WOMEN OF COLOR Introduction to Indigenous/Women of Color 33. The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977) - Combahee River Collective 34. Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female (1970) - Frances M. Beal 35. The Sisters Reply (1968) - Patricia Haden, Sue Rudolph, Joyce Hoyt, Rita Van Lew, Catherine Hoyt, and Patricia Robinson 36. The Feminist Manifesto (1907) - He-Yin Zhen 37. Zapatista Women’s Revolutionary Laws (1994) - Zapatista Army of National Liberation (Zapatistas) 38. The Black Movement and Women’s Liberation (1970) - Linda La Rue 39. Not Murdered, Not Missing: Rebelling against Colonial Gender Violence (2014) - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson 40. Manifesto of the Erased: Mujeres, Decolonize El Dios Americano (2015) - Crystal Zaragoza 41. The Wild Poet’s Manifesto (2012) - Susan Hawthorne 42. Black Lives Matter Platform (2016) - Black Lives Matter V. SEX/BODY Introduction to Sex/Body 43. Vaginal Orgasm as a Mass Hysterical Survival Response (1968) - Ti-Grace Atkinson 44. Fat Liberation Manifesto (1973) - Judy Freespirit and Aldebaran 45. Manifesto of the 343 (1971) - Simone de Beauvoir 46. Ax Tampax Poem Feministo (1996) - adee (The Bloodsisters Project) 47. Occupy Menstruation (2018) - Susan Stenson 48. A Letter to the Man Who Tried to Rape Me (2016) - Sara Roebuck 49. Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice (2015) - Valerie Tarico 50. The Countersexual Manifesto (excerpt) (2000) - Paul B. Preciado 51. Feminist Manifesto to Support the Rights of Sex Workers (n.d.) - Feminists for Sex Workers 52. Masturbation Manifesto (1997) - Betty Dodson 53. The GINK Manifesto (2010) - Lisa Hymas 54. Futurist Manifesto of Lust (1913) - Valentine de Saint-Point
VI. HACKER/CYBORG Introduction to Hacker/Cyborg 55. A Cyborg Manifesto (excerpt) (1991) - Donna Haraway 56. Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century (1991) - VNS Matrix 57. cybertwee manifesto (2014) - Gabriella Hileman, Violet Forest, and May Waver 58. Waging Peace on the Internet (2001) - Oxblood Ruffin (Hacktivismo) 59. A Hacker Manifesto (Version 4.0) (2004) - McKenzie Wark 60. Yes Manifesto (2004) - Mette Ingvartsen 61. Radical Psychiatry Manifesto (1969) - Claude Steiner
VII. TRASHY/PULP Introduction to Trashy/Punk 62. RIOT GRRRL Manifesto (1991) - Bikini Kill 63. To Tramps, the Unemployed, the Disinherited, and Miserable (1884) - Lucy E. Parsons 64. TRASHGiRRRRLLLZZZ: A Manifesto for Misfit ToYZ (2016) - Elizabeth Broeder 65. Women’s Art: A Manifesto (1973) - VALIE EXPORT 66. The Why Cheap Art? Manifesto (1984) - Bread and Puppet Theater 67. Pussy Manifesto (1999) - Bitch and Animal 68. I Don’t Want to Have to Compromise My Morals in Order to Make a Living (2013) - Grimes 69. The People Behind the Mop Buckets (2015) - Elizabeth Wallace 70. The Undercommons (2013) - Stefano Harney and Fred Moten 71. Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto (excerpt) (2017) - Jessa Crispin
VIII. WITCHY/BITCHY Introduction to Witchy/Bitchy 72. W.I.T.C.H. Manifesto (1968) - W.I.T.C.H. 73. BITCH Manifesto (1968) - Joreen 74. Manifesto of Apocalyptic Witchcraft (2013) - Peter Grey 75. Funeral Oration for the Burial of Traditional Womanhood (1968) - Kathie Amatniek Sarachild 76. Truisms (excerpt) (1978–1987) - Jenny Holzer 77. A Manifesto (1970) - Agnes Denes Acknowledgments About the Contributors Sources