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Philip Mirowski
Melinda Cooper brings sharp feminist insights to clarify a range of topics in 'everyday neoliberalism' overlooked in the earlier literature. In particular, what isoften retailed as endorsement of 'gender freedom' turns out to be a return to an older poor law tradition of 'personal responsibility' thrust upon families by means of a retasked welfare system plus expansion of consumer credit. This history is vital for an understanding of the modern neoliberal order.
Bethany E. Moreton
This is the book I've been waiting for. With devastating effectiveness, Cooper returns kinship and intimacy to their central place in the postwar ordering of economy and power. This brilliantly argued synthesis leaves no room for left critique that cannot recognize sexual normativity as the keystone of both neoliberal and socially conservative efforts to contain the most radical redistributive potential of liberation movements.
Rosi Braidotti
In this intellectual tour de force that combines rigorous empirical evidence with breathtaking theoretical finesse, Melinda Cooper argues that neo-liberal economics breeds multiple forms of fundamentalism as well as structural inequalities that hit the most intimate aspects of our existence. She invites us to think again and to think harder about our analyses and our resistance to the social disintegration induced by contemporary capital. An absolute must read.
From the Publisher
“Melinda Cooper brings sharp feminist insights to clarify a range of topics in ‘everyday neoliberalism’ overlooked in the earlier literature . . . . This history is vital for an understanding of the modern neoliberal order.” — Philip Mirowski, author of Never Let A Serious Crisis Go To Waste
“This is the book I’ve been waiting for….This brilliantly argued synthesis leaves no room for left critique that cannot recognize sexual normativity as the keystone of both neoliberal and socially conservative efforts to contain the most radical redistributive potential of liberation movements.” — Bethany E. Moreton, author of To Serve God and Wal-mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
“In this intellectual tour de force that combines rigorous empirical evidence with breathtaking theoretical finesse, Melinda Cooper argues that neoliberal economics breeds multiple forms of fundamentalism as well as structural inequalities that hit the most intimate aspects of our existence . . . . An absolute must read.” — Rosi Braidotti, author of The Posthuman
Endorsement
In this intellectual tour de force that combines rigorous empirical evidence with breathtaking theoretical finesse, Melinda Cooper argues that neo-liberal economics breeds multiple forms of fundamentalism as well as structural inequalities that hit the most intimate aspects of our existence. She invites us to think again and to think harder about our analyses and our resistance to the social disintegration induced by contemporary capital. An absolute must read.
—Rosi Braidotti, author of The Posthuman
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