“The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“The devout Islamic woman becomes the antithesis of a certain kind of strident right-wing feminist.” — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“The Republican abuse of the term feminism in the past decade or so is an astonishing lesson in the politically opportunistic use… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“The battle for public support for the wars was played out through a combination of the liberal ‘feminist’ discourse of rights and… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“If ‘feminism’ can mean anything from behaving like a man (Miller), being pro-choice (Valenti), being pro-life (Palin), and being pro-war (the Republican… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“It is the time of the token woman … Paradoxically the triumph of the rhetoric of feminism has taken place exactly at… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“for the disproportionate fear that the statistically and historically minimal group of women who were both angry and had hairy legs have… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“As Katherine Viner puts it: Feminism is used for everything these days, except the fight for true equality – to sell trainers,… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“When people talk about the ‘feminization of labor’, then, their discourse is often double-edged. The phrase is at once descriptive (work is… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, as Marx notes, it is only when women enter work ‘outside the sphere of the domestic economy’ that transformations in relations… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“Clearly if something is to be salvaged of the ‘fight for true equality’, the meaning of feminism must be clear. It must… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“The glorious world of work stumbles at various obstacles: pregnancy, age, lack of education, desperation (particularly of migrant and illegal workers, the… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“If men’s wages too have been depressed, if there literally aren’t enough jobs, or enough money to pay for them (what with… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“As Virno puts it ‘correctly understood, post-Fordist “professionality” does not correspond to any precise profession. It consists rather of certain character traits.’25… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“The discourse of work as pure emancipation depends on blocking out class and age constantly.” — Nina Power Copy Share
“The battle for public support for the wars was played out through a combination of the liberal ‘feminist’ discourse of rights and the hawkish… — Nina Power Copy Share
“At the very moment where some sort of collective response might be appropriate – for example, campaigning against discrimination of pregnant women at work… — Nina Power Copy Share
“It is also clear, unfortunately,that ideology runs deeper than the hopeful might have previously imagined. It is not merely a question of turning the… — Nina Power Copy Share
“Nevertheless, as Marx notes, it is only when women enter work ‘outside the sphere of the domestic economy’ that transformations in relations between the… — Nina Power Copy Share
“As Katha Pollitt puts it: US invasions have made the work of Muslim feminists much more difficult. The last thing they need is for… — Nina Power Copy Share
“Organizing among agency workers is structurally impossible, and the enforced atomization of the agency worker is rephrased as ‘individual choice’, ‘your freedom’.” — Nina Power Copy Share
“Of course, women have always worked, that is to say, raised children, tended to the home, grown crops, etc., and how different the history… — Nina Power Copy Share
“The devout Islamic woman becomes the antithesis of a certain kind of strident right-wing feminist.” — Nina Power Copy Share
“Clearly if something is to be salvaged of the ‘fight for true equality’, the meaning of feminism must be clear. It must also recognize… — Nina Power Copy Share
“Zillah Eisenstein uses the term ‘decoy’ to describe the way in which ‘imperialist democracy’ covers over its structural sins with a thin veneer of… — Nina Power Copy Share
“Any general social responsibility for motherhood, or move towards the equal sharing of childcare responsibilities is immediately blocked off – this individual woman has… — Nina Power Copy Share
“From the same Badiou piece: Strange is the rage reserved by so many feminist ladies for the few girls wearing the hijab. They have… — Nina Power Copy Share
“Alain Badiou has identified the contradictory imperatives behind the recent anti-headscarf laws in France as an example of this logic: Grandiose causes need new-style… — Nina Power Copy Share
“The personal is no longer just political, it’s economic through and through.” — Nina Power Copy Share
