“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 arguments. For example: hijab must be banned; it is a sign of male power (the father… — 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
