“Nevertheless, as Marx notes, it is only when women enter work ‘outside the sphere of the domestic economy’ that transformations in relations between the sexes, the composition of families and so on, really start to happen.” — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“The discourse of work as pure emancipation depends on blocking out class and age constantly.” — 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 the hawkish… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“The devout Islamic woman becomes the antithesis of a certain kind of strident right-wing feminist.” — 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 also recognize… — Nina Power Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
