After Liberation
Sex, Social Movements, and Capital Since the New Left
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6356389 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanna Wuest (0000-0002-2359-9322, Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 478-502 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/719830 |
| OpenAlex | W4281689659 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article asks what New Left era liberation theory can illuminate about capitalism, corporate power, and minority oppression in American politics today. Over the past forty years, rising rates of legal rights and social acceptance of LGBTQ+ persons have accompanied parallel trends in economic immiseration and business influence in politics. Given that sexual and gender minorities are disproportionately affected by economic inequalities, scholars and activists alike have invoked the New Left experience to distinguish a radical liberation politics from an assimilationist and pluralist interest-group agenda. They have done so with the expectation that liberation theory offers a robust account of capitalism, patriarchy, and racial oppression’s interlocking natures as well as a means of charting a path beyond this uneven egalitarianism. In reassessing the legacy of New Left political thought, this article posits that such accounts—which have cast capitalism as a system maintaining a strict regulation of gender and sexual conformity and have exalted the wealth redistributionist potential of identity-based movements—are ill-equipped to explain the complex relationship between corporate power and minority political struggles. Throughout, the article draws out lessons for those seeking to interpret and to transform the uneven egalitarian state of contemporary American politics
Capitalism · Egalitarianism · Feminism · New Left · Oppression · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |