• Foreword


• Acknowledgements


• Introduction: Feminism in Neoliberal Times


• Chapter One: How Superwoman Became Balanced


• Chapter Two: The Neoliberal Feminist


• Chapter Three: Neoliberal Futurity and Generic Human Capital


• Chapter Four: Back from the Future: Turning to the "Here and Now"


• Chapter Five: Feminist Convergences


• Chapter Six: Reclaiming Feminism


• Notes


• Bibliography


• Index

Catherine Rottenberg is Marie Sklodowska-Curie Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, as well as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics and the Gender Studies Program at Ben-Gurion University. She is the author of Performing Americanness: Race, Class and Gender in Modern African- and Jewish- American Literature and Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side.

The Rise of Neoliberal Feminism demonstrates how the notion of a happy work-family balance has not only been incorporated into the popular imagination as a feminist ideal but also lies at the heart of a new variant of feminism, one that has abandoned any commitment to equal rights or emancipation. This book underscores the ways in which neoliberal feminism forsakes the vast majority of women, while facilitating new and intensified forms of racialized and class-stratified gender exploitation. Given our frightening neoliberal reality, the monumental challenge, then, is how we can successfully reorient and reclaim feminism as a social justice movement.