Spamantha

How feminism became capitalism's handmaiden - and how to reclaim it
Nancy Fraser

s a feminist, I've always assumed that by fighting to emancipate women I was building a better world – more egalitarian, just and free. But lately I've begun to worry that ideals pioneered by feminists are serving quite different ends. I worry, specifically, that our critique of sexism is now supplying the justification for new forms of inequality and exploitation.

In a cruel twist of fate, I fear that the movement for women's liberation has become entangled in a dangerous liaison with neoliberal efforts to build a free-market society. That would explain how it came to pass that feminist ideas that once formed part of a radical worldview are increasingly expressed in individualist terms. Where feminists once criticised a society that promoted careerism, they now advise women to "lean in". A movement that once prioritised social solidarity now celebrates female entrepreneurs. A perspective that once valorised "care" and interdependence now encourages individual advancement and meritocracy.

What lies behind this shift is a sea-change in the character of capitalism. The state-managed capitalism of the postwar era has given way to a new form of capitalism – "disorganised", globalising, neoliberal. Second-wave feminism emerged as a critique of the first but has become the handmaiden of the second.

Sisters with transistors: the pioneers of electronic music
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'Balkan queen' feat Eden

12. JULY 2022 / U10 GALLERY BELGRADE

re-placing the position of the kitchen
it is not a private hiding place anymore, it becomes public, it stands in the gallery now open to all of the gazes present.
the housewife the domestic goddess the balkan queen

if you can make good coffee you can get married.

if you can make good coffee you can get married.

kitchen = domestic office

HIDING OUR DIRTY DISHES FROM THE GAZE - THE OUTSIDE
what will people say?

ironi

con artist

morals

In 1926, an Irish designer named Eileen Gray built a shiplike villa on the south coast of France that drove the famed architect Le Corbusier wild. Corbu had declared that a house was a machine to live in;, but Gray thought, No: a house is a person's shell, a skin, and should respond to how she lives. To start designing, she studied how she and her housekeeper moved through the day and made diagrams of their motions and those of the sun to reveal natural patterns - loops in the kitchen, deep lines by the windows, meanders though the living room.

PLAY WITH FAKE NAILS ON A HARP