Precariat and the girl. Commodity fetishism and emancipation today Cover Image

Prekariat i dziewczyna. Fetyszyzm towarowy i emancypacja dziś
Precariat and the girl. Commodity fetishism and emancipation today

Author(s): Ewa Majewska
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Gender Studies, Sociology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: precariat; feminism; power; emancipation; resistance

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the widely praised notion of precariat. While demonstrating the weaknesses of its theoretical assessments offered by such authors, as: Kathi Weeks, Guy Standing, Jan Sowa or Antonio Negri, I try to reinstall diversity that lays at the core of this category. It is, as I argue, crucial for making emancipation possible, to make the “girl” function as something more than a simple neoliberal icon of conformist consumption.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 218-241
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish