Edinburgh Socialist Feminist Book Club: Bodies Under Siege

Tue Feb 11 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm UTC+00:00

Books N' Cup Cafe | Edinburgh

Workers' Liberty
Publisher/HostWorkers' Liberty
Edinburgh Socialist Feminist Book Club: Bodies Under Siege
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Join the first meeting of our Edinburgh socialist feminist book club and discuss 'Bodies Under Siege', by Sian Norris.
About this Event

Join the launc of our Edinburgh Socialist Feminist Book Club, hosted by Workers' Liberty.

In our first meeting we'll be discussing:
• Chapters 2 & 4 of Sian Norris's Bodies Under Siege: How the Far Right Attack on Reproductive Rights Went Global.
• The essay 'Abortion is our Right to strike' by Jenny Brown.

Please write to [email protected] for a PDF of the book.
To join our book club WhatsApp click here.

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FROM THE BLURB: An exposé of how far-right extremists across Europe use attacks on abortion to introduce broader fascist politics--and their connections to the American far right, from a leading investigative journalist.

Think today's anti-abortion ideas are rooted in religious prohibitions or arguments about where life begins? Wrong: today's anti-abortion movements is largely financed and planned by far-right extremists. Many of them are avowedly fascist and white supremacist, afraid of a "great replacement" of the world's white population by other races, who are working hard to reshape governments and policies across Europe, North America and around the world. Much of this far-right organizing and funding network, however, has been overlooked by today's feminist and left movements.
As investigative journalist Sian Norris uncovers here, it is through attacking abortion rights that fascist ideas from the dark web, incel chat boards, and fringe organizations comes to enter mainstream debate -- and to then shape governmental policy across Europe, from authoritarian regimes like Hungary's to liberal democracies like Britain. As Norris goes undercover at anti-abortion activist meetings, and pieces together the money trail linking American think tanks to far-right fascist groups, she maps out the pipeline by which fascism has become respectable across the Global North by taking away women's reproductive rights and autonomy.

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WOMEN'S FIGHTBACK

We publish a quarterly socialist feminist magazine, Women's Fightback.
Buy/read the latest issue: www.workersliberty.org/wf
Follow us: www.instagram.com/womens.fightback

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