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Sophie Lewis, "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" (Haymarket Books, 2025)

2025/4/23
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Sophie Lewis: 我认为女权主义并非天生具有政治善意，而是一套复杂且矛盾的实践和意识形态，必须根据其物质影响进行批判性评估。本书旨在揭示女权主义历史中那些与法西斯主义、种族主义、跨性别恐惧症和殖民主义相勾结的方面，并呼吁一种更加解放的、反法西斯的女权主义政治。我分析了从19世纪的帝国主义女权主义到当代的反堕胎活动家和排斥跨性别的激进女权主义者（TERF）等各种敌对女权主义，指出只有直面女权主义的复杂历史，我们才能发展出我们迫切需要的反法西斯女权主义策略。许多我们日常参与的女权主义形式都得到了国家认可和商业批准，并且常常与白人至上主义、资本主义和父权制本身相勾结。理解敌对女权主义是批判性乌托邦过程的一部分，需要在争取同志情谊的同时，学会切断联系并划清界限，这与我之前的著作《现在就实行全面代孕》和《废除家庭》一脉相承。 Stuti Roy: 作为访谈者，我引导了对Sophie Lewis著作《敌对女权主义》的讨论，涵盖了书中提出的关键论点，例如女权主义并非内在的政治善，以及需要批判性地评估各种女权主义思潮的物质影响。我追问了作者写作动机、敌对女权主义的定义、女权主义与暴力的关系，以及当代敌对女权主义（如反堕胎女权主义和TERF）的起源和影响。我特别关注了作者如何处理历史上的复杂性和矛盾性，以及如何平衡对经典女权主义人物的批判与对女权主义事业的热爱。

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Sophie Lewis discusses the trajectory that led her to write 'Enemy Feminisms,' highlighting its connection to her previous works on feminist politics of care, family, surrogacy, and reproduction. She emphasizes that understanding antagonism is crucial for comradeship and skillfully navigating boundaries, drawing parallels to gestational biology and the art of skillful holding and letting go.
  • Lewis's previous work focused on gestational labor and care communization.
  • 'Enemy Feminisms' is described as a 'love letter' to the feminism practiced in her earlier books.
  • Understanding antagonism and drawing lines is essential for comradeship.
  • The 'amniotechnical' is presented as the art of skillful holding and letting go.

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Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation)* *(Haymarket Books, 2025) is a provocative compendium of the feminisms we love to dismiss and making the case for the bold, liberatory feminist politics we'll need to stand against fascism, nationalism, femmephobia, and cisness. 

In recent years, "white feminism" and girlboss feminism have taken a justified beating. We know that leaning in won't make our jobs any more tolerable and that white women have proven to be, at best, unreliable allies. But in a time of rising fascism, ceaseless attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, we need to reckon with what Western feminism has wrought if we have any hope of building the feminist world we need. Sophie Lewis offers an unflinching tour of enemy feminisms, from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today's anti-abortion and TERF feminists. Enemy feminisms exist. Feminism is not an inherent political good. Only when we acknowledge that can we finally reckon with the ways these feminisms have pushed us toward counterproductive and even violent ends. And only then can we finally engage in feminist strategizing that is truly antifascist. At once a left transfeminist battlecry against cisness, a decolonial takedown of nationalist womanhoods, and a sex-radical retort to femmephobia in all its guises, Enemy Feminisms is above all a fierce, brilliant love letter to feminism.

About the Author

Sophie Lewis is a writer. Her books, Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, and Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, have been translated into nine languages.Sophie grew up in France, half-British, half-German, but now lives in Philadelphia and teaches online courses on utopian theory at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. She also has a visiting affiliation with the Center for Research on Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

**About the Host **

Stuti Roy has recently graduated with an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies from the University of Oxford. She holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Toronto.

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