Zillah Eisenstein


Zillah R. Eisenstein is an American political theorist and gender studies scholar and Emerita Professor of the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. Specializing in political and feminist theory; class, sex, and race politics; and construction of gender, Eisenstein is the author of twelve books and editor of the 1978 collection Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, which published the Combahee River Collective statement.
Eisenstein received her B.A. in Political Science from Ohio University in 1968 and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts. She began teaching at Ithaca College in 1973 and was tenured in 1978. Her papers are held in the Feminist Theory Archives of Brown University's Pembroke Center in Providence, Rhode Island.
Eisenstein writes an opinion column for Al Jazeera.
In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Russian Feminist Anti-War Resistance.
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Works

  • 1978, ed., Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism
  • 1981, The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism
  • 1984, Feminism and Sexual Equality: Crisis in Liberal America
  • 1988, The Female Body and the Law
  • 1994, The Color of Gender: Reimagining Democracy
  • 1996, Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century
  • 1996, Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism and the Lure of Cyberfantasy
  • 2001, Manmade Breast Cancers
  • 2007, Sexual Decoys, Gender, Race and War in Imperial Democracy
  • 2007, Against Empire: Feminisms, Race and the West
  • 2009, The Audacity of Races and Genders, A Personal and Global Story of the Obama Campaign
  • 2019, ''Abolitionist Socialist Feminism, Radicalizing the Next Revolution''