Contrasted with this new movement is liberal feminism, which is situated primarily in the global North and centers the experience of the “professional-managerial stratum” (11). By expanding what is meant by the term labor beyond mere waged work, the authors find optimism in the potential of this “new feminist wave . to overcome the stubborn and divisive opposition between ‘identity politics’ and ‘class politics’” (8). Exploring the recent (2016) feminist strikes throughout (primarily) Europe and South America, which ultimately coalesced into the MaInternational Women's Day, the authors contend that “the strikers have revived the day's all-but-forgotten historical roots in working-class and socialist feminism” (7).This historical connection is not the only significant aspect of this new movement instead, the authors argue that this new movement is also creating new ways of striking, Footnote 2 but this movement has also “infused the strike form itself with a new kind of politics” (8). The first two theses focus on explicating the binary choice of feminist strikes versus liberal feminism. The core ideas of Feminism for the 99% are presented through eleven theses that seek to provide support for the central tenet of rejecting capitalism. In what follows, the authors endeavor to defend the path of huelga feminista, that is, “e aim to explain why feminists should choose the road of feminist strikes, why we must unite with anticapitalist and antisystemic movements, and why our movement must become a feminism for the ninety-nine percent” (5 emphasis in original). Under such conditions, the time for fence-sitting is past .” (3–4).

For them, neoliberalism has stamped out any viable third option, to wit: “this iteration of capitalism has raised the stakes for every social struggle, transforming sober efforts to win modest reforms into pitched battles for survival. The authors of Feminism for the 99% argue that the monumental stakes of this pressing choice preclude any middle option. The other path is represented by the huelga feminista, Footnote 1 which “insist on ending capitalism: the system that generates the boss, produces national borders, and manufactures the drones that guard them” (2–3 emphasis in original). Feminism in the twenty-first century is at a crossroads: one path is represented by the corporate, neoliberal feminism espoused by the likes of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, which emphasizes the continuation of capitalism but with a few more women allowed in the ruling class.

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