The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms / Gender and Politics (PDF)

Elizabeth Evans is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol. Her research focuses on gender and politics, including engagement with formal processes and political activism. She has published widely on aspects of feminism, gender and politics, and her previous book, Gender and the Liberal Democrats, was published in 2011.

“Elizabeth Evans’ The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms: Neoliberalism, Intersectionality, and the State in Britain and the US … is a practical and well-written book that does what it says on the tin – a rare find within academia.” (Finn Mackay, timeshighereducation.com, December, 2015)

“Elizabeth Evans produces a volume that discusses the concept and practice of intersectionality and the impact of neoliberal policies on third wave Feminism in Britain and the US … . It is accessible, authoritative, engaging, and relevant … . I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone with a passing interest in Feminism, specialist or otherwise. It works as both a first port of call for anything third wave-related or as a self-contained volume.” (Isabel López Ruiz, LSE Review of books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, July, 2105)

'This is an essential book for any feminist, not only in the UK and US. It's deeply informed reflection on what has changed and what remains as the feminism of the 1970s has aged, infiltrated policy-making, become caricatured, faced new forms of resistance is vital for anyone who wishes to transform gender relations. Moreover, Evans takes the internal criticisms that have always been part of feminism seriously, thus generating a valuable new perspective on both complicity with the state and the problematics that commitment to intersectionality raises. Paradoxically, her attention to the differences between US and UK feminisms in the challenges they face, organizational and political resources they hold, and different histories and alliances around race and class issues brings out as well their similarities in the grassroots struggles waged around neoliberal restructuring, cultural individualism, and racial diversity.'

Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

'The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms provides an unprecedented empirically rich and systematic comparison of recent feminist activism in Britain and the US as it is