WHITE FEMINISM

This is a timely, conversation-shifting analysis of how corporations are cashing in on feminism and an unflinching exploration of how white women have shut out their sisters of color and transwomen from their successes - and what it would take for real change.

Like White Fragility and Good and Mad, WHITE FEMINISM will confront our conversation around race, female "empowerment" and what constitutes inclusion.

Via her first-hand research and razor-sharp cultural commentary, Beck will detail the rise of corporate feminism with bold scrutiny and meticulous detail. Her research and analysis would upend the way we understand the struggle for women's equality - and tear through long-accepted conventions like a bulldozer.

White Feminism challenges the corporate feminist message with a combination of cultural analysis, hard data, and a scholarly - and far-reaching - understanding of the history of feminist struggle. Beck breaks new ground in her examination of overlooked communities and their successful strategies for social change. Her ambitious project will examine Native American, Muslim, Latinx, Asian, and transgender women's contributions to feminism in a powerful new light, examining their legacy as a primer for an inclusive and equitable future.

Koa Beck is the former editor-in-chief of Jezebel and cohost of "The #MeToo Memos" on WNYC's The Takeaway. Previously, she was the executive editor of Vogue.com and the senior features editor at MarieClaire.com. Her literary criticism and reporting on gender, LGBTQ rights, culture, and race have appeared in TheAtlantic.com, the New York Observer, TheGuardian.com, and Esquire.com, among others. Her short stories have been published in Slice, Kalyani magazine, and Apogee Journal. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and serves on the board of directors of Nat.Brut, an art and literary magazine. Beck is a Joan Shorenstein Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School.