Radical feminists in the 1960s and 1970s turned to the “colonial analogy” to expose the myth of women’s natural inferiority and make visible that male supremacy, like white supremacy, was enforced by political terrorism. What account of terrorism emerges against this understanding of women as a colonized people? And what might the radical feminist analysis of terrorism indicate about our own moment of resurgent white male supremacy?
BIO
Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson works in political theory and contemporary European philosophy, with a special interest in critical theory and genealogy. She is the author of Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire (Columbia, 2018) She is currently working on a book on white supremacist terrorism in the United States.
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/verlenbusch/home