Feminist Theory Week 6: Angela Mitropolous’s Contract & Contagion

I’m blogging my way through the texts for my Spring 2018 Feminist Theory seminar. Angela Mitropolous’s Contract & Contagion takes up a lot of the themes we’ve discussed so far: contract (obviously), property in person, the public/private or production/reproduction split,…

On Michelle Murphy’s THE ECONOMIZATION OF LIFE

I’m blogging my way through the texts for my feminist theory seminar this spring. Here’s week 5.   “At the turn of the twenty-first century, girls’ futures existed in a dense constellation of anticipatory relations, imagined as cascades of probabilistic…

Feminist Theory Week 4: Melinda Cooper’s FAMILY VALUES

I’m blogging my way through the course texts for my grad feminist theory seminar in Spring 2018. This week we’re reading Melinda Cooper’s book Family Values. Questions: What is the relationship between neoliberal notions of responsibility (see Cooper, but also…

Feminist Theory Week 3: Marriage

I am blogging my way through the course texts for my grad feminist theory seminar this term. This week we’re reading selections from Carole Pateman’s The Sexual Contract & Dean Spade & Craig Willse’s “Marriage Will Never Set Us Free.”…

Feminist Theory Week 2: Sylvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch

This is the second installment of me blogging my way through the course texts for my spring 2018 seminar in feminist theory. Today we read selections of Federici’s Caliban and the Witch.   This is a classic text in feminist…