Feminism Against Progress
Feminism Against Progress by Mary Harrington, published by Skyhorse Publishing on March 5, 2024, is a critical examination of modern feminism and its implications for women across different socioeconomic classes. This edition spans 256 pages and is presented in English. Harrington argues that contemporary feminism primarily serves a small group of professional women, suggesting that the liberation of women has been more influenced by the material changes brought about by the Industrial Revolution than by moral advancements.
In this book, readers will find a discussion on how the transition to the digital age has altered the landscape of women’s rights and societal roles. Harrington highlights the commodification of women’s bodies and the potential dangers of a future where economic disparities lead to exploitation. The text delves into the intersection of political ideologies, women’s studies, and the evolving nature of feminism, emphasizing the need for a more inclusive approach that genuinely represents the interests of all women.
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Modern feminism increasingly benefits only a small class of professional women. There is no reason to sacrifice everyone else’s happiness for their sake.
Mary Harrington shows that women’s liberation was less the result of moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We’ve now left the industrial era for the digital age, in which technology is liberating us from natural limits and embodied sex differences. This shift may benefit the elites, but it also makes it easier to commodify women’s bodies, human intimacy, and female reproductive abilities.
“Feminism” has been captured by well-off white-collar women, who use it to advance their own economic and political interests under the pretense that these are the interests of all women—all the while wielding the term like a club against anyone, male or female, who dissents.
Feminism against Progress is a stark warning against a dystopian future in which poor women become little more than convenient sources of body parts to be harvested and wombs to be rented by the rich. “Progress” no longer benefits the majority of women, and only a feminism that is skeptical of it can truly defend their interests in the twenty-first century.
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