Feminist City
@feministcity.bsky.social
Femme the city! Exploring the (re)production/labor/work/care in/of/for/as the city
[PhD in progress on 1970s feminist spatial politics in London + NYC]
[PhD in progress on 1970s feminist spatial politics in London + NYC]
Really looking forward to this one @commonnotions.bsky.social !!
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Really looking forward to this one @commonnotions.bsky.social !!
November 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"A struggle is not necessarily progressive because it is in a factory, or reformist because it is outside it."
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
"A struggle is not necessarily progressive because it is in a factory, or reformist because it is outside it."
"It's the connection between the shit private production provides in the market and the miracles women are supposed to perform with it inside the family that's really the key" (!)
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"It's the connection between the shit private production provides in the market and the miracles women are supposed to perform with it inside the family that's really the key" (!)
"Thus, capital constructs consumption work for women in complex ways: capital organizes the distribution of income to the household, and this largely determines the distribution of households into neighborhoods; ...capital organizes distribution of particular goods and services to particular areas."
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Thus, capital constructs consumption work for women in complex ways: capital organizes the distribution of income to the household, and this largely determines the distribution of households into neighborhoods; ...capital organizes distribution of particular goods and services to particular areas."
"Since women are usually both the consumption workers and the wage laborers in the distribution of goods and services, it is especially clear that capital shifts between paying and not paying for the same work."
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"Since women are usually both the consumption workers and the wage laborers in the distribution of goods and services, it is especially clear that capital shifts between paying and not paying for the same work."
We are all consumption workers !
November 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We are all consumption workers !
"The Other Side of the Paycheck" (1976)
“The consumption worker, unlike the wage laborer, has no singular and obvious antagonists, but many antagonists: the state, the supermarket, the landlord, etc.”
“The consumption worker, unlike the wage laborer, has no singular and obvious antagonists, but many antagonists: the state, the supermarket, the landlord, etc.”
November 22, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"The Other Side of the Paycheck" (1976)
“The consumption worker, unlike the wage laborer, has no singular and obvious antagonists, but many antagonists: the state, the supermarket, the landlord, etc.”
“The consumption worker, unlike the wage laborer, has no singular and obvious antagonists, but many antagonists: the state, the supermarket, the landlord, etc.”
“Out of these ‘displaced’ contradictions have grown movement which could have been predicted by an analysis focused narrowly on the point of production…institutions other than the workplace...have emerged as major sources of collective consciousness and militant struggle”
November 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“Out of these ‘displaced’ contradictions have grown movement which could have been predicted by an analysis focused narrowly on the point of production…institutions other than the workplace...have emerged as major sources of collective consciousness and militant struggle”
“Parallel to the withdrawal of working-class energies from the workplace there has been a displacement of the contradictions engendered by the capitalist mode of production to other sphere – the family, the school, even the health system” (John and Barbara Ehrenreich, p. 15).
November 22, 2025 at 2:03 PM
“Parallel to the withdrawal of working-class energies from the workplace there has been a displacement of the contradictions engendered by the capitalist mode of production to other sphere – the family, the school, even the health system” (John and Barbara Ehrenreich, p. 15).
“Seeking to explain their own situation, feminist socialists have instituted on the totality of capitalist penetration of our lives and the possibility and necessity of total resistance to that system” (p. 8).
November 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“Seeking to explain their own situation, feminist socialists have instituted on the totality of capitalist penetration of our lives and the possibility and necessity of total resistance to that system” (p. 8).
“Capitalism was telling women how to work as well as what to buy for their daily needs; the home was becoming a model for corporate priorities… The changing standards of cleaning, childcare and sexuality are intimately linked to this development” (p. 7).
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
“Capitalism was telling women how to work as well as what to buy for their daily needs; the home was becoming a model for corporate priorities… The changing standards of cleaning, childcare and sexuality are intimately linked to this development” (p. 7).