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Discussion with Sophie Lewis at FHS

The Faculty of Humanities is pleased to announce an evening with international scholar Sophie Lewis. A talk and discussion with Sophie Lewis on her new book Enemy Feminisms. TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation, led by Denisa Tomková, will take place on 17 March 2025 at 5pm in the FHS auditorium. In a time of rising fascism, constant attacks on reproductive justice, and violent transphobia, Lewis’s new book offers the vision of feminist world-building we need through discussions of hostile feminisms, from 19th-century imperial feminists and police officers to today’s anti-abortion and TERF feminists. Judith Butler said of the book: “Where would we be without Sophie Lewis? In a more impoverished political world. This book is mandatory reading for anyone interested in a rough and compelling vision of the feminist past, present, and future. Honest, brutal, historically comprehensive, and brilliant.”

Sophie Lewis is an independent scholar, visiting at the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Lewis is the author of Full Surrogacy Now, Abolish the Family, and Enemy Feminisms. She lives in Philadelphia as a researcher, teacher, and writer, for example, teaching courses on critical theory online for the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Previously, Dr Lewis studied English Literature (BA) and Nature, Society and Environmental Policy (MSc) at Oxford University, followed by an MA Politics at the New School for Social Research and a PhD in Geography at the University of Manchester. Articles by Sophie appear everywhere from the London Review of Books to Feminist Theory. You can find all essays listed at lasophielle.org and support this free-lance writing, if you wish, at patreon.com/reproutopia.

This event has been supported by Charles University Research Centre program No. UNCE/24/SSH/026