Transforming Feminist Practice: Non-Violence, Social Justice, and the Possibilities of a Spiritualized Feminism

After years of teaching women's studies courses and seeing the frustration, paralysis and depression of young students who grapple with the hard realities of social activism, Leela Fernandes has written a social critique that examines contemporary feminism and social justice movements. She discusses straightforwardly the problems with social justice organizations, academia and identity politics. She also poses a solution: that individuals—feminists and other social justice activists—create ...