Feminist Theory and Social Solidarity
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Capitalism, Democracy, Socialism: Critical Debates
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171–196
Creation Date
2022
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Springer Nature eBook
Document Type
Book Chapter
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This paper provides a history of the concept of solidarity along with delineating four types of feminist thought: identitarian, Marxist/decolonial, intersectional, and neoliberal. I use these imperfect classifications to index feminist thought to its relationship to social solidarity more broadly. This shows how building feminist organizations can supplement or strengthen a general social solidarity or how they can detract from and harm general social solidarity. I argue that non-identitarian forms of feminist thought are more broadly compatible with building a broad base of social solidarity. This means that both identitarian and neoliberal forms of feminist thought, due to their easy association with and cooptation by capitalist forms of life are ill suited to enable us to build social solidarity.