Feminism Seduced How Global Elites Use Women’s Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World 1st Edition by Hester Eisenstein 1594516596 9781594516597

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ISBN 10: 1594516596

ISBN 13: 9781594516597

Author: Hester Eisenstein

In a pioneering reinterpretation of the role of mainstream feminism, Eisenstein shows how the ruling elites of developed countries 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” and the ending of the family wage in the United States to the creation of export-processing zones in the global South that depend on women’s “nimble fingers”; and 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, and argues that it is crucial for feminists to throw in their lot with the progressive forces that are seeking alternatives to globalized corporate capitalism.

Table of contents:

1 Globalization and Women’s Labor

2 Women, Work, and the Mainstreaming of Feminism

3 Fault Lines of Race and Class

4 In the United States: A Political and Economic Sea Change

5 In the Global South: “Women” Replace Development

6 Islamophobia and the Global War on Terror

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