Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique

Banu Bargu is Associate Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research, USA.  She is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (2014), which received APSA’s First Book Prize given by the Foundations of Political Theory section and was named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 by Choice.Chiara Bottici is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, USA. She is the author of Imaginal Politics: Images beyond Imagination and The Imaginary (2014), A Philosophy of Political Myth (2007), and Uomini e stati. Percorsi di un'analogia (2004), which was published in English as Men and States (2009).

“The contributions to Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser are uniformly excellent. … The essays in Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique achieve what its editors say they set out to achieve … .” (Georgia Warnke, Hypatia Reviews Online, hypatiareviews.org, September 19, 2019)

• 1. Introduction.- 2. From Socialist-Feminism to the Critique of Global Capitalism.- 3. Debates on Slavery, Capitalism and Race: Old and New.- 4. Feminism, Capitalism and the Social Regulation of Sexuality.- 5. Capitalism’s Insidious Charm vs. Women’s and Sexual Liberation.- 6. The Long Life of Nancy Fraser’s “Rethinking the Public Sphere”.- 7. Feminism, Ecology and Capitalism: Nancy Fraser’s Contribution to a Radical Notion of Critique as Disclosure.- 8. Recognition, Redistribution, and Participatory Parity: Where’s the Law?.- 9. (Parity of) Participation: The Missing Link between Resources and Resonance.- 10. Curbing the Absolute Power of Disembedded Financial Markets: the Grammar of Social Resistance and the Polanyian Narrative.- 11. Hegel and Marx: A Re-Assessment After One Century.- 12. Crisis, Contradiction and the Task of a Critical Theory.- 13. What’s Critical about a Critical Theory of Justice?.- 14. Beyond Kant versus Hegel: An Alternative Strategyfor Grounding the Normativity.- 15. Conclusion: Nancy Fraser and the Left: a Searching Idea of Equality.