Second-wave feminism’s slogan inverted into a privatized politics by decade’s end

Evidence

In the sixties shift to postmodernity, ”the personal is political,” which annexes subjectivity to the social, becomes reconfigured as what might be dubbed ”the political is personal,” where political struggles are defined by, and located most meaningfully within, the realm of subjectivity, that includes or projects local, particular political allegiances and goals. Political ambitions for a totalizing, universal, transformative social change come to seem at best distant, ”utopian” in the negative sense of illusory; at worst, repressive. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 644

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Radical feminism’s internal contradiction prefigured the modern-postmodern feminist split. — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 852; The personal is political inverted into the political is personal as feminism went postmodern — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 865; Neoliberalism forces women into a double bind of either self-capitalization or invisibility — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 205 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The personal is political inverted into the political is personal as feminism went postmodern #expands (0.95) — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited, 865
• Capitalism absorbed its critics’ language to legitimize neoliberal privatization #expands (0.88) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 439
• Feminist ideals were resignified to serve neoliberal market individualism #expands (0.85)
• Neoliberalism forces women into a double bind of either self-capitalization or invisibility #expands (0.82) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 205
• The women’s movement equated liberation with capitalist economic success #exemplifies (0.80) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 428