Every institution is prone to rot—even great causes like feminism. It should be no controversy to affirm, Sophie Lewis writes, that often “women are horrible.” So begins the feminist critic’s new book Enemy Feminisms, in which she catalogs a “bestiary” of enemies: girlbosses, TERFs, and imperialists who claim to advance the cause of womankind while actually undermining the cause of liberation. This is the driving question of Enemy Feminisms: Is feminism always inherently good?
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