Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique

Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser

Banu Bargu, Chiara Bottici, Banu Bargu, Chiara Bottici

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9783319523859
• eBook ISBN: 9783319523866
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Political History & Theory
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This edited collection examines the relationship between three central terms—capitalism, feminism, and critique—while critically celebrating the work and life of a thinker who has done the most to address this nexus: Nancy Fraser. In honor of her seventieth birthday, and in the spirit of her work in the tradition of critical theory, this collection brings together scholars from different disciplines and theoretical approaches to address this conjunction and evaluate Fraser's lifelong contributions to theorizing it. Scholars from philosophy, political science, sociology, gender studies, race theory and economics come together to think through the vicissitudes of capitalism and feminism while also responding to different elements of Nancy Fraser's work, which weaves together a strong feminist standpoint with a vibrant and complex critique of capitalism. Going beyond conventional disciplinary distinctions and narrow debates, all the contributors to this project share a commitment to critically understanding the connection between capitalism, exploitation, and the viable roads for emancipation. They recover insights provided by classical traditions of political and social thought, but they also open new research directions adapted to the global challenges of our time.

Table of contents

• Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique
• Introduction
• From Socialist Feminism to the Critique of Global Capitalism
• Debates on Slavery, Capitalism and Race: Old and New
• Feminism, Capitalism, and the Social Regulation of Sexuality
• Capitalism’s Insidious Charm vs. Women’s and Sexual Liberation
• The Long Life of Nancy Fraser’s “Rethinking the Public Sphere”
• Feminism, Ecology, and Capitalism: Nancy Fraser’s Contribution to a Radical Notion of Critique as Disclosure
• Recognition, Redistribution, and Participatory Parity: Where’s the Law?
• (Parity of) Participation – The Missing Link Between Resources and Resonance
• Curbing the Absolute Power of Disembedded Financial Markets: The Grammar of Counter-Hegemonic Resistance and the Polanyian Na rative
• Hegel and Marx: A Reassessment After One Century
• Crisis, Contradiction, and the Task of a Critical Theory
• What’s Critical About a Critical Theory of Justice?
• Beyond Kant Versus Hegel: An Alternative Strategy for Grounding the Normativity of Critique
• Nancy Fraser and the Left: A Searching Idea of Equality
• Nancy Fraser’s Bibliography
• Index