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De-gendering social justice in the 21st century: An immanent critique of neoliberal capitalism

Azmanova, Albena (2012) De-gendering social justice in the 21st century: An immanent critique of neoliberal capitalism. European Journal of Social Theory, 15 (2). pp. 143-156. ISSN 1368-4310. (doi:10.1177/1368431011423576) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:28674)

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Abstract

This article presents a blueprint of a feminist agenda for the twenty-first century that is oriented not by the telos of gender parity, but instead evolves as an ‘immanent critique’ of the key structural dynamics of contemporary capitalism – within a framework of analysis derived from the tenets of Critical Theory of Frankfurt School origin. This activates a form of critique whose double focus on: (1) shared conceptions of justice; and (2) structural sources of injustice, allows criteria of social justice to emerge from the identification of a broad pattern of societal injustice surpassing the discrimination of particular groups. In this light, women’s victimization is but a symptom of structural dynamics negatively affecting also the alleged winners in the classical feminist agenda of critique. The analysis ultimately produces a model of social justice in a formula of socially embedded autonomy that unites work, care, and leisure.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/1368431011423576
Subjects: H Social Sciences
J Political Science
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Politics and International Relations
Depositing User: Albena Azmanova
Date Deposited: 08 Feb 2012 21:41 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:07 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/28674 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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