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Capitalism’s Insidious Charm vs. Women’s and Sexual Liberation

Author : Cinzia Arruzza

Published in: Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In her recent work on feminism and capitalism, Nancy Fraser has insisted on the necessity to resist the neoliberal cooptation of feminist discourse and to combine the critique of gender inequality with the critique of capitalism. Arruzza accepts Nancy Fraser’s invitation to think again about the structural connection between gender and sexual oppression and capitalist social relations. She critically discusses the liberal feminist notion that capitalism has led and can still lead to greater emancipation from gender and sexual oppression, and that the oppression of women and of sexuality is only a vestige of a pre-capitalist past. As capitalism generates gender and sexual oppression in various ways and new forms, these kinds of oppression cannot be considered simply as a remnant from a pre-capitalist past.

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Footnotes
1
On the capitalist recuperation of some tenets of feminist discourse, see in particular Fraser (2013, pp. 209–226). As Fraser argues: “the rise of neoliberalism dramatically changed the terrain on which second-wave feminism operated. The effect, I shall argue here, was to resignify feminist ideals. Aspirations that had a clear emancipatory thrust in the context of state-organized capitalism assumed a far more ambiguous meaning in the neoliberal era. With welfare and developmental states under attack from free-marketers, feminist critiques of economism, androcentrism, étatism, and Westphalianism took on a new valence” (2013, p. 218).
 
2
Among the books published or re-published in the last two decades, see, for example: Hennessy (2000); Bakker and Gill (2003); Weeks (2011); Holmstrom (2011); Federici (2012); Vogel (2014); Mojab (2015).
 
3
For a discussion of this point, see Drucker (2015, ch.​ 4).
 
4
For a more articulated refutation of both dual systems theory and of the notion of capitalism’s indifference to gender oppression, see Arruzza (2014; 2015).
 
5
The term was coined by Hochschild (2000).
 
6
For an expansion of the notion of global care chain and a discussion of global nursing care chains, see Yeates (2009).
 
7
For an example of the thesis that heteronormativity is both functional and necessary to capitalism, see Butler (1998).
 
8
See also Hennessy (2000).
 
9
For a recent articulation of the critique of the commodification of gay culture and of the emergence of gay normality, see Drucker (2011 and 2015). For a recent defense of the positive effects of commodity culture for queer subcultures, see Davidson (2012).
 
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Metadata
Title
Capitalism’s Insidious Charm vs. Women’s and Sexual Liberation
Author
Cinzia Arruzza
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-52385-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-52386-6

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52386-6_5