2016
DOI: 10.1108/s1059-433720160000069006
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Market-Cautious Feminism

Abstract: This paper poses the question of whether the mainstream feminist movement in the United States, in concentrating its efforts on achieving gender parity in the existing workplace, is selling women short. In it, I argue that contemporary U.S. feminism has not adequately theorized the problems with the relatively unregulated market system in the United States. That failure has contributed to a situation in which women's participation in the labor market is mistakenly equated with liberation, and in which other fa… Show more

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“…Although these voices certainly exist and may be on the rise (e.g. Eichner, 2016), it is difficult, especially in litigation scenarios, to make such arguments (Boyd, 1999: 379-382).…”
Section: Women or Gender?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although these voices certainly exist and may be on the rise (e.g. Eichner, 2016), it is difficult, especially in litigation scenarios, to make such arguments (Boyd, 1999: 379-382).…”
Section: Women or Gender?mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Para além de suas diferenças, feministas liberais, como Betty Friedan, e feministas radicais, como Germaine Greer, criticaram fortemente as ideologias que manipulavam os desejos e os corpos das mulheres, de forma a confiná-las à esfera doméstica. Reforçadas pelas representações da mulher na publicidade em termos estereotípicos e negativos, tais ideologias enfatizavam os papeis de mãe e de esposa e infundiam nessas mulheres desejos, demandas e normas culturais que, na visão de feministas marxistas, estimulavam o ciclo de consumo do capitalismo (Maclaran, 2015;Eichner, 2016). Desde então a crítica feminista à representação das mulheres em termos objetificantes na mídia e na cultura pop tem sido mobilizada por uma infinidade de agentes culturais (Zeisler, 2016).…”
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