“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… — Nina Power Feminism Copy Share Image
“At the very moment where some sort of collective response might be appropriate – for example, campaigning against discrimination of pregnant women… — Nina Power Pregnant women 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… — 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 Family 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… — Nina Power Islam 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 Freedom 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… — Nina Power Children Copy Share Image
“The devout Islamic woman becomes the antithesis of a certain kind of strident right-wing feminist.” — Nina Power Feminism 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 Equality 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… — Nina Power Democracy Copy Share Image
“Any general social responsibility for motherhood, or move towards the equal sharing of childcare responsibilities is immediately blocked off – this individual… — Nina Power Motherhood Copy Share Image
“From the same Badiou piece: Strange is the rage reserved by so many feminist ladies for the few girls wearing the hijab.… — Nina Power Fashion Copy Share Image
“Alain Badiou has identified the contradictory imperatives behind the recent anti-headscarf laws in France as an example of this logic: Grandiose causes… — Nina Power Young girls Copy Share Image
“The personal is no longer just political, it’s economic through and through.” — Nina Power Economics Copy Share Image
“If men and women are at all times supposed to be a kind of walking CV, constantly networking, constantly advertising themselves, then… — Nina Power Men and women Copy Share Image
“generalized imperative that all femininity be translatable into the logic of the market. If the body is a useful part of the… — Nina Power Investing 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 Investing 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 People Talk 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 Feminism 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 Feminism 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 Feminism 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 Fear Copy Share Image
“The invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were both justified by an appeal to the emancipation of women, and the discourse of feminism… — Nina Power Feminism 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 Feminism Copy Share Image
