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Feminism Against Neoliberalism: Theorising Biopolitics in Germany, 1978–1993
Ist Teil von
Gender & history, 2017-04, Vol.29 (1), p.67-86
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2017
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Wiley Online Library
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Recent scholars have argued that feminism is the handmaiden of neoliberalism. This article suggests otherwise, offering a study of West German feminists in the 1980s. Responding to the advent of reproductive technologies, these feminists were pioneers in critically assessing the relationship between reproduction and neoliberalism. Radical feminists like Maria Mies argued that global capitalism allied with the state to coercively structure reproduction for its needs. For disability rights feminists like Theresia Degener, however, the state did not coerce; it produced citizens who willingly regulated their reproduction under a new eugenics from below. In analysing the marketisation of reproduction, German feminists developed a more sophisticated understanding of neoliberalism than critics today who simplistically theorise neoliberalism as the mere retraction of the state.