So I am open to hearing what doesn't work about this book, as long as you promise to stay open to what does work (p5). To a certain degree, our entire future may depend on learning to listen, listen without assumptions or defenses.
We are socialized to see what is wrong, missing, off, to tear down the ideas of others and uplift our own. Staying focused on our foundational miraculous nature is actually very hard work in our modern culture of deconstruction. In the introduction to her book, brown presents a preferred mode of critique, one that speaks to a spirit of 'calling in' rather than 'calling out.' She writes: I am open to critiques of course, if they are offered in the spirit of collective liberation. Yet one thing connects them: Hunt's and brown's books are both texts of liberatory, feminist hope and, in their best moments, both show ways of organising, in the past and present, that makes this hope concrete. Hunt's book is a chronological account of the intertwined-indeed, inseparable-histories of abolitionism and feminism in the nineteenth-century United States brown's book is a contemporary collection of her writings on social change, taking the form of poetry, interviews, guidelines, and blog posts, to name a few. New York: Feminist Press, 2017 248pp ISBN 9781558614291Īt first glance, And the Spirit Moved Them (Helen LaKelly Hunt) and Emergent Strategy (adrienne maree brown) could not be more different.
Helen LaKelly Hunt, And the Spirit Moved Them: The Lost Radical History of America's First Feminists Adrienne maree brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing WorldsĬhico, CA: AK Press, 2017 280pp ISBN 9781849352604
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