Post-war middle-class stability rested on repressing queer folk and women

Evidence

For queer folk, life, love and physical and mental health were extremely precarious, under threat at all times from a conservative culture that based its stability (non-precariousness) on repression and oppression … Likewise, women paid the price for post-war non-precariousness, compelled to provide free reproductive labour in the home, which was the sine qua non and ultimate cultural referent for stability, and denied access to The Financial Liquidation of Social Life 45 most occupations and ways of being (Federici 2012). — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 145

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to deWaard’s cultural argument: the ‘non-precarious’ white middle-class norm was built on exclusion, which later fractures into the financialized culture. — connects to: Postwar middle-class prosperity rested on colonial, racial, gendered, and ecological exploitation. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 519; Postwar propaganda deliberately reversed women’s wartime independence — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 513; Middle-class women feel society is collapsing and doubt individual remedies suffice. — Nina Eliasoph, “Close to home”: The work of avoiding…, 116

Broader Connections

• Postwar middle-class prosperity rested on colonial, racial, gendered, and ecological exploitation. #expands (0.95) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 519
• Postwar propaganda deliberately reversed women’s wartime independence #expands (0.72) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 513