A wide-ranging, critical and accessible text that connects contemporary developments in Ireland to wider global debates. Essential reading for new feminist activists or anyone looking to better understand the Irish feminist scene.

Mairead Enright, University of Birmingham, UK

In her bold, exciting and very readable new book Camilla Fitzsimons analyses the politics and struggles that have shaped feminism and the women's movement in Ireland over the past fifty years. Based on meticulous research and interviews with a wide range of activists, Rethinking Feminism critically explores the extent and impact of feminist organising and protest on key issues from labour and electoral politics to reproductive freedom, gender-based violence, and trans liberation. Refusing to 'centre the experiences of middle-class white women', Fitzsimons argues powerfully for an anti-capitalist and anti-establishment feminism focussing on systemic inequalities that can confront the deep intersections of power and inequality at the core of women's oppression.

At this exceptionally dangerous and volatile time in global politics, with governments around the world abandoning any semblance of progressive-leaning politics and running for cover on the capitalist Right, Rethinking Feminism is a bracing, courageous and heartfelt rallying call to feminists to create a united front to carry on the struggle against capitalist patriarchies and to focus our activism on the struggles of all those who have been most neglected and marginalised.

Ailbhe Smyth