Wolf’s third-wave feminism aligned with Third Way centrism and corporate power.

Evidence

Yet the feminism Wolf proposed in response was not a throwback to the radical demands of the 1960s and ’70s, a time when feminism had been linked with anti-imperialism, anti-racism, and socialism and activists had built their own collectives, movement publications, and insurgent political candidacies that set out to challenge and transform dominant power systems from the outside. On the contrary, just as Bill Clinton and Tony Blair moved their respective parties away from policies that championed universal public services and redistribution of wealth toward a pro-market, pro-militarism “Third Way,” Wolf’s version of third-wave feminism charted a path to the center, one that had little to offer working-class women but promised the world to white, middle-class, highly educated women like her. Two decades before Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, Wolf published her second book, Fire with Fire, which called on feminism to drop the dogma and embrace the “will to power.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 63

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels the Lean In / corporate-feminism critique and Klein’s broader diagonal convergence thesis, where liberal-centrist embrace of market power foreshadows the right-wing mirror. — connects to: Bourgeois feminism can ally with corporations against Third World women. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 554; Social democratic parties abandoned class politics for a pro-market Third Way — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 117