Motherhood Quote by Nina Power

“The discourse of work as pure emancipation depends on blocking out class and age constantly.”

— Nina Power

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Organizing among agency workers is structurally impossible, and the enforced atomization of the agency worker is rephrased as ‘individual choice’, ‘your freedom’.”

— Nina Power

“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

“The devout Islamic woman becomes the antithesis of a certain kind of strident right-wing feminist.”

— Nina Power

“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

“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

“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