Sublime

By the early 2000s, the intersectional shift in feminism had become undeniable. Previous feminist scholarship and activism treated women as a class and sought to create positive change for that class. As the influence of applied postmodernism crept into feminism, however, the focus switched from material disadvantages within social structures like

More recently, Meg Henderson and Anthea Taylor discussed the “neoliberalization” of self-help (considered further below).41 In this iteration the feminist ideals of the 1980s and 1990s are transformed with even greater individualism and more emphasis on producing subjects “better adjusted to neoliberalism.” They chart how a focus on feminist consci

An applied postmodern mind-set says: “The West has constructed the idea that rationality and science are good in order to perpetuate its own power and marginalize nonrational, nonscientific forms of knowledge production from elsewhere. Therefore, we must now devalue white, Western ways of knowing for belonging to white Westerners and promote Easter

Lasch emphasizes the nexus between the decline of nations and the collapse of the middle class, which is linked to the forces of globalization, capitalism and technology.

agree with Morgan that participation is not intrinsically politically progressive. Thus, though I seek these practices’ democratic potential and look for ways they extend equal opportunities for social engagement, I also pay attention to ways they constrain or suppress those opportunities.

While industrial capitalism had melted away much of the structures of social life (traditional loyalties, customary rights, and obligations), advanced capitalism has, in Bauman’s view, melted any relationship between individual actions and those of political collectivities.92 The language of New Age literature renders this liquefaction as not only