Introduction: Reclaiming Feminism: Gender and Neoliberalism

Sexuación y subjetivación en las prácticas de asistencia en Chile

“…Autoras tales como Andrea Cornwall (2008), Constanza Tabbusch (2011), Maxine Molyneux (2007), entre otras, ponen en entredicho que el Estado invoque a la mujer como intermediaria para la protección de los vulnerables. Observan que a través de lógicas conservadoras de la feminidad a partir de las cuales se fija su rol de madre, se niega u oculta otras dimensiones tales como las de trabajadoras o ciudadanas y se invisibiliza el carácter relacional de la configuración de los géneros.…”

Gender, Sexuality and Development: Revisiting and Reflecting

“…The second conference, in 2007, on 'Reclaiming Feminism: Gender and Neoliberalism', co-organised by Andrea Cornwall, Jasmine Gideon from Birkbeck, University of London and Kalpana Wilson from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), critiqued the neoliberal development discourse engagement with empowerment (Cornwall et al 2008a). Discussions at the conference focused on how neoliberalism had reproduced conservative notions of womanhood, straitjacketing women into a nurturing role within the family.…”

“…Discussions at the conference focused on how neoliberalism had reproduced conservative notions of womanhood, straitjacketing women into a nurturing role within the family. These instrumentalist ideas cast women with the responsibility for ensuring economic growth -'a weapon in the fight against poverty' (DFID 2007: 31 cited in Cornwall et al 2008a). …”

A New Dawn for the Second Sex

“…Gender and development programs of neoliberal signature even privilege women as the preferred economic agent, since, in a commitment to their family, they regularly save and repay, and urge others to do so as well (cf. Batliwala 2007;Cornwall et al 2008). …”

“…9 Feminists, from their own perspectives, contribute to astute analyses of current global power configurations (for an excellent example see Cornwall et al 2008), and to achieving new societal and economic alternatives that synthesize collective and personal ethical dimensions. A feminism in a new key draws from women's multiple freedom practices, but also from feminisms of the past, re-interpreting them as critically creative freedom practices that comprise new ethical models for selves and societies, and for the world -without taking on board their essentialist claims.…”