![]() ![]() ASIN: B07NZ32DPS Average rating: 4. Cloaking regressive policies in an aura of emancipation, it enables the forces supporting global capital to portray themselves as “progressive.” Allied with global finance in the United States, while providing cover for Islamophobia in Europe, this is the feminism of the female power-holders: the corporate gurus who preach “lean in,” the femocrats who push structural adjustment and microcredit on the global South, and the professional politicians in pant suits who collect six-figure fees for speeches to Wall Street. Feminism for the 99:: A Manifesto (Kindle Edition) Published March 5th 2019 by Verso Kindle Edition, 192 pages Author(s): Cinzia Arruzza, Nancy Fraser, Tithi Bhattacharya. In general, then, liberal feminism supplies the perfect alibi for neoliberalism. ![]() In that world, “feminism” risks becoming a trending hashtag and a vehicle of self-promotion, deployed less to liberate the many than to elevate the few. ![]() Its love affair with individual advancement equally permeates the world of social-media celebrity, which also confuses feminism with the ascent of individual women. “Liberal feminism’s ethos converges not only with corporate mores but also with supposedly “transgressive” currents of neoliberal culture. Feminism of the 99 is a contemporary, grassroots, radical feminist movement, which recognises intersectionality and advocates activism for and by all women - including those who have been overlooked by other feminist movements. ![]()
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