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Zillah Eisenstein
Eisenstein in 2016
Years active	1972-present
Title	Emerita Professor of Politics
Academic background
Alma mater	Ohio University University of Massachusetts
Academic work
Institutions	Ithaca College

Zillah R. Eisenstein is an American political theorist and gender studies scholar and Emerita Professor of the Department of Politics at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. Specializing in political and feminist theory; class, sex, and race politics; and construction of gender, Eisenstein is the author of twelve books and editor of the 1978 collection Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism, which published the Combahee River Collective statement.

Eisenstein received her B.A. in Political Science from Ohio University in 1968 and her M.A. and Ph.D. (1972) from the University of Massachusetts. She began teaching at Ithaca College in 1973 and was tenured in 1978. Her papers (1966 to 2011) are held in the Feminist Theory Archives of Brown University's Pembroke Center in Providence, Rhode Island.

Eisenstein writes an opinion column for Al Jazeera.

In March 2022 she was amongst 151 international feminists signing Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto, in solidarity with the Feminist Anti-War Resistance initiated by Russian feminists after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Works

• 1978, ed., Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism (Monthly Review Press)
• 1981, The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism (Longman)
• 1984, Feminism and Sexual Equality: Crisis in Liberal America (Monthly Review Press)
• 1988, The Female Body and the Law (University of California Press)
• 1994, The Color of Gender: Reimagining Democracy (University of California Press)
• 1996, Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century (Routledge)
• 1996, Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism and the Lure of Cyberfantasy (NYU Press)
• 2001, Manmade Breast Cancers (Cornell University Press)
• 2007, Sexual Decoys, Gender, Race and War in Imperial Democracy (Zed Press, London; Palgrave, U.S.)
• 2007, Against Empire: Feminisms, Race and the West (Zed Press, London; Palgrave, U.S.)
• 2009, The Audacity of Races and Genders, A Personal and Global Story of the Obama Campaign (Zed Press, London; Palgrave, U.S.)
• 2019, Abolitionist Socialist Feminism, Radicalizing the Next Revolution (Monthly Review Press)

References

1. ^ "Zillah Eisenstein". Ithaca College. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
2. Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta (2020-07-20). "Until Black Women Are Free, None of Us Will Be Free". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-10-31.
3. "ZILLAH EISENSTEIN" (PDF). Retrieved 30 October 2021.
4. ^ "Zillah Eisenstein". The Ithaca Journal. 1978-05-31. p. 4. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
5. "Feminist Theory Archive Collections | Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
6. "Zillah Eisenstein | Al Jazeera News | Today's latest from Al Jazeera". www.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2021-10-29.
7. "Feminist Resistance Against War: A Manifesto". Specter Journal. 17 March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
8. Reviews for Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism:
   • Kennedy, Liz; Lapidus, June (1980). "Review of Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism". Feminist Studies. 6 (3): 571–582. doi:10.2307/3177483. ISSN 0046-3663. JSTOR 3177483. S2CID 143570085.
   • Barrett, Michèle (1980). "Review of Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism; Feminism and Materialism: Women and Modes of Production". Signs. 5 (3): 527–531. doi:10.1086/493737. ISSN 0097-9740. JSTOR 3173592.
9. Reviews for The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism:
   • Pateman, Carole (1982). "Review of The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism". Political Theory. 10 (2): 320–323. doi:10.1177/0090591782010002011. ISSN 0090-5917. JSTOR 190583. S2CID 220901832.
   • Flammang, Janet A. (December 1981). "The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism. By Zillah R. Eisenstein. (New York: Longman, 1981. Pp. xi + 260. $17.95.)". American Political Science Review. 75 (4): 1018–1020. doi:10.2307/1962306. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1962306. S2CID 147792552.
   • Held, Virginia. "The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism" by Zillah R. Eisenstein (Book Review)." Signs; Chicago Vol. 7, Iss. 3,  (Spring 1982): 696.
10. Reviews for Feminism and Sexual Equality: Crisis in Liberal America:
    • Breines, Wini (1985). "Review of Feminism and Sexual Equality: Crisis in Liberal America". Contemporary Sociology. 14 (5): 608–610. doi:10.2307/2069543. ISSN 0094-3061. JSTOR 2069543.
    • Meckel, Gamine. "Feminism and Sexual Equality: Crisis in Liberal America" Zillah R. Eisenstein (Book Review)." Mid-American Review of Sociology; Lawrence, KS Vol. 10, Iss. 1,  (Spring 1985): 87.
11. Revies for The Female Body and the Law:
    • Cossman, Brenda (2017-02-10). "Book Review: Where Is Somewhere in Between? A Review of Zillah Eisenstein's The Female Body and the Law". Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality. 9 (3): 575. ISSN 0737-089X.
    • Buker, Eloise A. (1991). "Zillah R. Eisenstein, The Female Body and the Law. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988". Hypatia. 6 (3): 221–226. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1991.tb00266.x. ISSN 0887-5367. S2CID 145133510.
    • Hirschmann, Nancy J. (March 1990). "The Female Body and the Law. By Zillah R. Eisenstein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988. 280p. $25.00". American Political Science Review. 84 (1): 271–272. doi:10.2307/1963644. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 1963644. S2CID 251098830.
    • McKenszie, Nancy F. (1990-05-01). "The Female Body and the Law". Monthly Review. 42 (1): 55–61.
    • Littleton, Christine A. (1992). "Review of The Female Body and the Law". Signs. 17 (4): 852–854. doi:10.1086/494775. ISSN 0097-9740. JSTOR 3174546.
    • Aulette, Judy Root (1991). "The Female Body and the Law". Deviant Behavior. 12: 339.
    • Glass, Becky L. (1991). "Review of The Female Body and the Law". Gender and Society. 5 (2): 250–252. doi:10.1177/089124391005002016. ISSN 0891-2432. JSTOR 189496. S2CID 220519913.
    • Schulhofer, Stephen J. (1992). "Review of The Female Body and the Law". The Journal of Modern History. 64 (4): 747–750. doi:10.1086/244551. ISSN 0022-2801. JSTOR 2124907.
    • Shanley, Mary Lyndon (1990). "Review of The Female Body and the Law". NWSA Journal. 2 (2): 308–311. ISSN 1040-0656. JSTOR 4316034.
    • Kuehl, Sheila James (1989-06-04). "The Female Body And The Law". The Los Angeles Times. p. 21. Retrieved 2021-11-02.
12. Reviews for Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century:
    • Vuille, Marilène (1998). "Zillah Eisenstein - Hatreds. Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century. New York and London. Routledge. 1996". Les Cahiers du Genre. 22 (1): 151–153.
    • Gedalof, Irene (1998). "Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century". Women's Philosophy Review (20): 106–108. doi:10.5840/wpr1998/1999209. ISSN 1369-4324.
    • Fonow, Mary Margaret (1997-06-01). "Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century". Gender & Society. 11 (3): 374–377.
    • Holland, Carolsue (June 1997). "Hatreds: Racialized and Sexualized Conflicts in the 21st Century. By Zillah Eisenstein. New York and London: Routledge, 1996. 223p. $17.95". American Political Science Review. 91 (2): 500. doi:10.2307/2952435. ISSN 0003-0554. JSTOR 2952435. S2CID 148208611.

External links

• Official website
• Zillah Eisenstein's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)

• Living people
• 20th-century American philosophers
• 20th-century American women scientists
• 20th-century American women writers
• 21st-century American philosophers
• 21st-century American women scientists
• 21st-century American women writers
• American feminists
• American political philosophers
• American political scientists
• American women non-fiction writers
• American women philosophers
• American women political scientists
• American gender studies academics
• Ithaca College faculty
• Ohio University alumni
• Social theorists
• University of Massachusetts alumni