Feminism Against Progress
Feminism Against Progress by Mary Harrington, published by Skyhorse Publishing on April 25, 2023, explores the complexities of modern feminism and its implications for women across different socio-economic classes. This edition, comprising 256 pages, presents a critical examination of how contemporary feminist movements may primarily serve the interests of a small group of professional women, rather than the broader female population. Harrington argues that the liberation of women has been shaped more by the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution than by moral advancements, suggesting that the transition to the digital age has further complicated these dynamics.
In this thought-provoking work, readers will find a discussion on the commodification of women’s bodies and the impact of technology on gender roles. Harrington warns of a future where the interests of wealthy women overshadow those of poorer women, reducing them to mere resources in a capitalist framework. The book delves into themes of political ideologies, women’s studies, and the intersection of feminism with social science, urging a reevaluation of what true progress means for all women in the twenty-first century.
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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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