Abstract
This special section of Feminist Theory focuses on Jo Littler's book of interviews, Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political, brought out recently (2023) by the independent UK publisher Lawrence & Wishart. The book consists of fourteen in-depth interviews (some of which were initially published in Soundings: a Journal of Politics and Culture) with the feminist writers/theorists/activists Nancy Fraser, Awkugo Emejulu, Sheila Rowbotham, Verónica Gago, Wendy Brown, Lynne Segal, Hilary Wainwright, Carol Tulloch, Vron Ware, Angela McRobbie, Gargi Bhattacharyya, Sylvia Walby, Finn Mackay and Sophia Siddiqui. This book, which is experimental in format, raises a wide range of issues about feminist theory, including its relationships to political parties and movements, environmentalism and imperialism, the role and state of universities, so-called identity politics, social media, sexualities, ‘faultlines’ within feminism and the rise of the new right. For this special section, we invited a range of responses to the book and its themes from Kathi Weeks, Francesca Sobande, Janet Newman, Alison Hearn and Kate Soper, followed by an afterword in response to these contributions from Jo Littler.