Warehouse of Identities

A Neoliberal Delusion

Feminism & Capitalism Has second-wave feminism as an epochal social phenomenon unwittingly supplied key ingredients to the new spirit of capitalism named neoliberalism? This is the troubling question Nancy Fraser asks in her lecture Feminism, Capitalism and the Cunning of History.[1] At stake is the possibility that the cultural changes jump-started by ...
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Freud and Irigaray in Grey Gardens

Penis Envy as Male Phantasy

This post is part of the Bodies, Gender, and Domination OOPS Series. The American documentary Grey Gardens, directed by the Maysles brothers, is a celebrated landmark of its genre. The viewer enters the life of Edith “Big Edie” Beale and her daughter Edith “Little Edie” Beale. The peculiar couple lives in ...
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Freud and Irigaray in Grey Gardens