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By Nancy Fraser

Nancy Fraser’s significant new publication strains the feminist movement’s evolution because the Nineteen Seventies and anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist inspiration and action.

During the ferment of the recent Left, “Second Wave” feminism emerged as a fight for women’s liberation and took its position along different radical pursuits that have been wondering middle good points of capitalist society. yet feminism’s next immersion in identification politics coincided with a decline in its utopian energies and the increase of neoliberalism. Now, foreseeing a revival within the circulate, Fraser argues for a reinvigorated feminist radicalism in a position to tackle the worldwide monetary drawback. Feminism could be a strength operating in live performance with different egalitarian pursuits within the fight to convey the economic system lower than democratic keep watch over, whereas construction at the visionary power of the sooner waves of women’s liberation. This strong new account is determined to develop into a landmark of feminist idea.

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For a critique o f dual systems theory, see Iris Young, “ Beyond the U nhappy M arriage: A Critique o f Dual Systems Theory,” in Women and Revolution, ed. Sargent; and “ Socialist Feminism and the Limits o f Dual Systems Theory,” Socialist R eview 5 0 -5 1 , 1980, 16 9 -80 . In sections two and three o f this essay, I develop arguments and lines o f analysis that rely on concepts and categories that internally integrate gender and political econom y (see note 30 below). Th is might be considered a “ single system” approach.

O n the one hand, he contrasts th em as tw o different m eth o do lo gical perspectives on the study o f societies. ” In principle, either can be applied to the study o f any given set o f societal ph enom ena. H aberm as argues that neither alone is adequate. S o he seeks to develop a m eth o d o lo gy that com bines both. O n the o th er hand, H aberm as also contrasts system and lifew orld in another way, namely, as tw o different kinds o f institutions. It is this second system lifeworld contrast that I am co n cern e d w ith here.

In order to understand that social formation, a critical theory requires a single set o f categories and concepts which integrate internally both gender and political econom y (perhaps also race). For a classic statement o f dual systems theory, see Heidi Hartmann, “ The Unhappy M arriage o f M arxism and Feminism: Toward a M ore Progressive Union,” in Women and Revolution, ed. Lydia Sargent, Boston: South End Press, 1981. For a critique o f dual systems theory, see Iris Young, “ Beyond the U nhappy M arriage: A Critique o f Dual Systems Theory,” in Women and Revolution, ed.

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