When you attack these structures of care, the burden falls on working-class women. We’ve also seen that the entire period of neoliberalism has been marked by attacks on institutions and infrastructure that allow working class people and communities to live their life with dignity. More than we can argue Trump won the 2016 election, we can say that Hillary Clinton lost it.

She was out there advocating for Wall Street, war, and other ways for American capitalism to succeed.

TB: The election cycle of Hillary Clinton was a culminating moment which signified the absolute bankruptcy of liberal feminism. How have we begun to see the cracks in liberal feminism’s facade? When we’re talking about empowerment feminism or feminism for the one percent, we’re often talking about liberal feminism, which, in the book, you argue is collapsing. The trio began arguing for a 'feminism for the 99%' in 2017, when they joined five other feminist activists to plan the International Women's Strike, a collective action they say provided the basis for 're-politicizing' and 're-animating' a feminism that had been co-opted by capitalism. Where some might see a bleak wasteland of ' She-E-Os,' feminist tote bags, and 'The Future Is Female' T-shirts stretching out endlessly before them, Arruzza, Bhattacharya, and Fraser see an opportunity: a space to define a new kind of feminism rooted in anti-capitalism. This is a remarkable vision of equal opportunity domination.' 'They want a world where the task of managing exploitation in the workplace and oppression in the social whole is shared equally by ruling-class men and women. 'On one hand, Sandberg and her ilk see feminism as the handmaiden of capitalism,' they write early in the book. The three women call Hillary Clinton's 2016 defeat a 'wake-up' call that drew attention to the holes in the message liberal feminism has sold women: that the advancement of women in the top one percent of the income bracket is good for all women that the ultimate goal of feminism is 'empowerment' in its most basic form that you could improve the condition of women as a group while leaving intact capitalism, the system Arruzza, Bhattacharya, and Fraser say is responsible for reproducing inequality and gender oppression. In Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, authors Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser argue that liberal feminism-a version of feminism that encourages women to pursue equality with men through individualist and often careerist endeavors-is in decline. According to a new book, it's not just Sandberg's facade that's crumbling.

Feminism for the 99 a manifesto