LEWIS, Sophie
Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation

An unflinching tour of 200 years 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. With verve and eloquence, Sophie Lewis – the author of Abolish the Family – argues that we need to reckon with what Western feminism has wrought if we have any hope of building the feminist world we need.

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. [publishers’ note]

Published by Haymarket Books, 2025
Essays / Feminism / Politics