Feminism seduced
Subtitle: how global elites are using women's labor and ideas to exploit the world
By: Hester Eisenstein.
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boulder
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781594516597
Subjects: Women -- Employment; Power (Social sciences); Feminism; Globalization
Description: "In a pioneering reinterpretation of the role of mainstream feminism, Eisenstein shows how the world’s ruling elites utilize women’s labor and the ideas of women’s liberation and empowerment to maintain their economic and political power, both at home and abroad. Her explorations range from the abolition of “welfare as we know it” in the United States to the creation of export-processing zones in the global South that depend on women’s “nimble fingers”; from the championing of microcredit as a path to women’s empowerment in the global South to the claim of women’s presumed liberation in the West as an ideological weapon in the war on terrorism. Eisenstein challenges activists and intellectuals to recognize that international feminism is at a fateful crossroads. She argues that it is crucial for feminists to throw in their lot with the progressive forces that are seeking alternatives to globalized corporate capitalism."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Globalization and women's labor; title: Women, work, and the mainstreaming of feminism; title: Fault lines of race and class; title: In the United States : a political and economic sea-change; title: In the global south : "women" replace development; title: Islamophobia and the global war on terror.