Sublime

and focuses only on the needs of a narrow subset of already privileged women; a version of feminism that is toothless and apolitical and fails to challenge the injustice of existing power structures, aiming only to insert women at the top of them. This type of feminism, commonly referred to as neoliberal feminism, tends to overlook the aspects of

Given that in the labor market women are concentrated in service-sector jobs involving reproductive labor, it can be argued that women have traded unpaid housework for their families for paid housework in the marketplace.

There is hardly a politician who dares not profess eternal devotion to women’s rights, and wisely so, since what they have in mind is our “right to work,” for our cheap labor is a true cornucopia for the system.

But all women should have free access to school, for as long as studying is a commodity we have to pay for, or a step in the “job hunt,” our relation to intellectual work cannot be a liberating experience.

Finally it seemed to us that posing “getting a job” as the main condition for becoming independent of men would alienate those women who do not want to work outside the home, because they work hard enough taking care of their families, and if they “go to work” they do it because they need the money and not because they consider it a liberating

It is required of women that in order to realise her femininity, she must make herself object and prey, which is to say she must renounce her claims as a sovereign subject.[262]