Middle-class women feel society is collapsing and doubt individual remedies suffice.
Evidence
But (summarizing her position on drugs), I don’t know, I really feel as if the whole society to me is falling apart… It’s gonna take a lot of strength and it’s gonna take a lot of people to pull out. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”, 116
Categorization
- corroborated: 5 independent passages support this claim — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 116
- XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism forces women into a double bind of either self-capitalization or invisibility — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 205; Conflicting expectations of equality and otherness produce women’s lack of balance — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 668; Post-war middle-class stability rested on repressing queer folk and women — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 145 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Conflating class-State with regulated society is a reactionary middle-class error
#expands(0.85) - Post-war middle-class stability rested on repressing queer folk and women
#expands(0.82) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 145 - Ruling-class women’s leisure functions as evidence of capitalist social decay
#expands(0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1127 - Women’s otherness lacks the historical before that enables other groups to rebel
#expands(0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 58 - Neoliberalism forces women into a double bind of either self-capitalization or invisibility
#expands(0.78) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 205 - Oppressed groups become Subjects by saying ‘we,’ which women have failed to do.
#expands(0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 56 - Conflicting expectations of equality and otherness produce women’s lack of balance
#expands(0.75) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 668 - White middle-class women are less oppressed than poor or black women
#qualifies(0.72) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 427