Feminism for the 99% by Nancy Fraser - ISBN: 9781788734424
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Feminism for the 99%: social justice, not just corporate power.

Feminism for the 99%

A Manifesto

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    96 pages

  • Release Date

    6 May 2019

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Summary

Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, universal healthcare, police violence; not the issues you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But why should feminism only deal with issues that impact middle-class women? For most of us – for 99% of us – ‘leaning in’ at our corporate board room meeting is not an option.

This is a manifesto for the 99%. Those for whom increasing the minimum wage and implementing universal health and childcare would have a far greater impact on their lives that…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781788734424
ISBN-10:1788734424
Author:Nancy Fraser, Tithi Bhattacharya, Cinzia Arruzza
Publisher:Verso Books
Imprint:Verso Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:96
Release Date:6 May 2019
Weight:86g
Dimensions:8mm x 111mm x 178mm
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What They're Saying

Critics Review

Nancy Fraser is among the very few thinkers in the tradition of critical theory who are capable of redeeming its legacy in the twenty-first century. – Axel Honneth
For more than a decade, Nancy Fraser’s thought has helped to reframe the agenda of critical theory. – Etienne Balibar
Nancy Fraser challenges us to reactivate the audacious spirit of second-wave feminism. Analyzing an imaginary aimed at eradicating exploitation as well as subjugation, she offers a rousing conclusion as to how we might mobilize feminism’s best energies against the perils of the neoliberal present. – Lynne Segal
Nancy Fraser is one of the most creative social philosophers and critical theorists of her generation. – Cornel West
Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser … have collaborated and written what is effectively a prospective programme for the global women’s movement, a feminist manifesto for the 99%. * Socialism Today *
[Feminism for the 99%’s] captivating vision of feminism is not a standalone movement, isolated from battles against the exploitation of people or the planet … in contrast, [it] calls for radical movements to join together in a ‘common anti-capitalist insurgency.’ Where do I sign up? * Red Pepper *
Fulfils the serious promise of its subtitle, ‘a manifesto’, as it makes feminism generally applicable and available - and addresses the crisis of capitalism as a feminist issue … excellent * Peace News *
a treatise for an intersectional, socialist feminism that centers collective power over power for just a few * Jezebel *
a visionary, relatable and all-encompassing resource valuable both to the collective committed to achieving a feminist informed anti-capitalist society and to those who are yet to be haunted by the spectre – Felicity Adams * Feminist Legal Studies *
[a] timely, fiery manifesto … Arruzza, Bhattacharya, and Fraser herald the arrival of a new internationalist, anticapitalist feminist movement … The feminism they describe is universalist and collaborative, in solidarity with antiracist, queer, environmental, migrant, and labor rights movements also endangered by capitalism. * Publishers Weekly *
‘An anti-capitalist feminism has become thinkable today,’ Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser argue in Feminism for the 99 Per Cent, ‘in part because the credibility of political elites is collapsing worldwide.’ They are right. – Lorna Finlayson * London Review of Books *
A crucial formulation of an inclusive, transformative, and global social shift. * Quietus *
In a searing anti-capitalist manifesto written by three scholar-activists based in the US, Feminism for the 99% stands for allwho are exploited, dominated and oppressed. … Combining theory, rhetoric and principle, it reads as a call to arms. * Race & Class *

About The Author

Nancy Fraser

  • Cinzia Arruzza is Associate Professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Dangerous Liaisons. The Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism (Merlin Press 2013) and of A Wolf in the City. Tyranny and the Tyrant in Plato’s Republic (forthcoming from OUP). She was one of the main organizers of the International Women’s Strike in the United States.
  • Tithi Bhattacharya is Associate Professor and Director of Global Studies at Purdue University. She is the author of The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (OUP, 2005) and the editor of Mapping Social Reproduction Theory (Pluto Press 2017). She was one of the main organizers of the International Women’s Strike in the United States.
  • Nancy Fraser is Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis (Verso 2013) and of Scales of Justice. Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing World (Polity 2008). She was one of the main organizers of the International Women’s Strike in the United States.

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