Central Topics for Today

1. Femonationalism & sexuality
2. On Spillers, the Moynihan Report, and "The Vanishing Family"
3. Two central terms: ungendering and the flesh

Femonationalism & Sexuality

• A framework for analyzing how nationalist + centrist parties in Europe co-opt feminist ideals of gender equality + emancipation in order to demonize non-Western (and especially Muslim) men
• Serves the economic function of funneling non-Western women into domestic and caregiving roles, positioned as providers of inexpensive welfare
• A convergence between feminism and nationalism
• The causes of femonationalism are rooted in transformations in how 21st century capitalist societies produce and reproduce themselves

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• Construction of an American freedom defined through free work
• Commodified Maks as a concept and body
  • Not the active voice in the written portion
  • STAMP: Made in Bangladesh
• Particular representation of sexual freedom
• Paints a picture of her not fitting in anywhere as a positive thing, when it's really a depersonalizing thing, dehumanizes her....NOT A STEROTYPE they say...but literally being not conventional is a conventional ideal
• Contradictory AF
• Melting pot of America

Hortense Spillers and the Autonomy of Black Feminist Theory

Kinship, sex/gender systems, & feminist theories of women's oppression