عنوان

The rise of neoliberal feminism /

(Number (ISBN

0190901225

(Number (ISBN

9780190901226

Erroneous ISBN

9780190901233

Erroneous ISBN

9780190901240

Title Proper

The rise of neoliberal feminism /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Catherine Rottenberg.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York, NY :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2018]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xviii, 239 pages ;

Dimensions

22 cm.

Series Title

Heretical thought

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

Introduction: feminism in neoliberal times -- How superwoman became balanced -- The neoliberal feminist -- Neoliberal futurity and generic human capital -- Back from the future : turning to the "here and now" -- Feminist convergences -- Reclaiming feminism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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Text of Note

From Hillary Clinton to Ivanka Trump and from Emma Watson all the way to Beyonce, more and more high-powered women are unabashedly identifying as feminists in the mainstream media. In the past few years feminism has indeed gained increasing visibility and even urgency. Yet, in her analysis of recent bestselling feminist manifestos, well-trafficked mommy blogs, and television series such as The Good Wife, Catherine Rottenberg reveals that a particular variant of feminism-which she calls neoliberal feminism-has come to dominate the cultural landscape, one that is not interested in a mass women's movement or struggles for social justice. Rather, this feminism has introduced the notion of a happy work-family balance into the popular imagination, while transforming balance into a feminist ideal. So-called "aspirational women" are now exhorted to focus on cultivating a felicitous equilibrium between their child-rearing responsibilities and their professional goals, and thus to abandon key goals that have historically informed feminism, including equal rights and liberation. Rottenberg maintains that because neoliberalism reduces everything to market calculations it actually needs feminism in order to "solve" thorny issues related to reproduction and care. She goes on to show how women of color and poor and immigrant women most often serve as the unacknowledged care-workers who enable professional women to strive toward balance, arguing that neoliberal feminism legitimates the exploitation of the vast majority of women while disarticulating any kind of structural critique. It is not surprising, then, that this new feminist discourse has increasingly dovetailedwith conservative forces. In Europe, gender parity has been used by Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders to further racist, anti-immigrant agendas, while in the United States, women's rights has been invoked to justify interventions in countries with majority Muslim populations. And though campaigns such as the #MeToo and #TimesUp appear to be shifting the discussion, given our frightening neoliberal reality, these movements are currently insufficient. Rottenberg therefore concludes by raising urgent questions about how we can successfully reorient and reclaim feminism as a social justice movement.

Title

Rise of neoliberal feminism.

International Standard Book Number

9780190901233

Feminism.

Neoliberalism.

Feminism.

Feminismus

Neoliberalism.

Neoliberalismus

USA

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Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Rottenberg, Catherine

Date of Transaction

20200822091042.0

Cataloguing Rules (Descriptive Conventions))

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Electronic name

[Book]

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