Fortunes of Feminism: From Women's Liberation to Identity Politics to Anti-Capitalism

260 Pages·2013·7.86 MB·English

by  Nancy Fraser

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FORTUNES OF FEMINISM

FORTUNES OF FEMINISM:
From State-Managed Capitalism to
Neoliberal Crisis
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Nancy Fraser
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Fraser, Nancy.
Fortunes of feminism : from state-managed capitalism
to neoliberal crisis and beyond / Nancy Fraser. — 1st
Edition,
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-84467-984-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN
978-1-84467-985-0 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1. Feminist theory. 2. Distributive justice. 3. Culture
conflict. I. Title.
HQ1190.F73 2013
305.4201—dc23
2012050039
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Printed in the US by Maple Vail
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paths to a feminist future
Grateful recognition of institutional support and intellectual inspira­
tion appears in the initial starred note of each chapter. Here I thank
Tomer Zeigerman and Mine Yildirim for expert assistance in prepar­
ing the manuscript, and I acknowledge support from the New School
for Social Research, the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies,
the Einstein Foundation of the City of Berlin, and the Centre for
Advanced Studies “Justitia Amplificata.”
I am grateful as well for permission to reprint the following chap­
ters:
Chapter i was originally published in New German Critique 35,
1985. An earlier version of Chapter 2 appeared as “Talking About
Needs: Interpretive Contests as Political Conflicts in Welfare-State
Societies,” in Ethics 99:2, 1989. The version reprinted here appeared
in Nancy Fraser, Justice Interruptus: Critical Reflections on the “Postsocial­
ist” Condition, New York: Routledge, 1997. Chapter 3 was originally
published in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19:2, 1994.
An earlier version of Chapter 4 appeared in Political Theory 22:4, 1994.
The version reprinted here was subsequently published in Nancy
Fraser, Justice Interruptus. An Earlier version of Chapter 5 appeared in
Boundary 2 17:2, 1990. The version reprinted here was subsequendy
published in Nancy Fraser Justice Interruptus. Chapter 6 first appeared
in French translation in Actuel Marx 30, 2001. Chapter 7 was origi­
nally published in New Left Review, I/228, 1998. Chapter 8 was
originally published in New Left Review 36, 2005. Chapter 9 was orig­
inally published in New Left Review 56, 2009. Chapter 10 was originally
published in French translation in Revue de VOFCE 114, 2010.
Contents
Prologue to a Drama in Three Acts
PART I. FEMINISM INSURGENT: RADICALIZING
CRITIQUE IN THE ERA OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
1. Whats Critical About Critical Theory?
The Case of Habermas and Gender 19
2. Struggle over Needs: Oudine of a Socialist-Feminist
Critical Theory of Late-Capitalist Political Culture 53
3. A Genealogy of “Dependency”:
Tracing a Keyword of the US Welfare State
(coauthored with Linda Gordon) 83
4. After the Family Wage:
A Postindustrial Thought Experiment hi
PART II. FEMINISM TAMED! FROM REDISTRIBUTION
TO RECOGNITION IN THE AGE OF IDENTITY
5. Against Symbolicism:
The Uses and Abuses of Lacanianism for Feminist Politics 139
6. Feminist Politics in the Age of Recognition:
A Two-Dimensional Approach to Gender Justice 159
7. Heterosexism, Misrecognition, and Capitalism:
A Response to Judith Butler 175
PART III. FEMINISM RESURGENT? CONFRONTING
CAPITALIST CRISIS IN THE NEOLIBERAL ERA
8. Reframing Justice in a Globalizing World 189
9. Feminism, Capitalism, and the Cunning of History 209
10. Between Marketization and Social Protection:
Resolving the Feminist Ambivalence 227
Index 243