The programs of neoliberal feminism

Linda Gordon — 2016-01-08T15:34:19Z

Neoliberalism isn't just harmful economics. Here is a look at its gender side.
Academics and a few journalists have been writing about neoliberal feminism for some time. But most of them discuss it theoretically. Few recognize how neoliberal assumptions saturate specific proposals for advancing women, or how these proposals do not actually address women's inequality, especially the inequality multiplied by race and class. At best these proposals are feeble in relation to most women's problems, and they may even be part of the problem.

- Feminism / Women, Sexual politics

Gerda Lerner, 1920-2013

Linda Gordon — 2013-03-07T16:27:49Z

Gerda Lerner has been the single most influential figure in the development of women's and gender history since the 1960s. Over the course of 50 years, a handful of brave and potentially marginal historians created a field with thousands of PhDs. The field expanded from Lerner's development of an MA program at Sarah Lawrence College in 1972 to the presence of Women's History faculty in the great majority of U.S. colleges and universities.

- Sexual politics / United States (USA), Obituary, Women, Sexual politics

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The programs of neoliberal feminism

Gerda Lerner, 1920-2013