Sublime

the seeming self-valorization hides high levels of unpaid labor and makes workers acceptant of constantly deferred rewards and total expendability since they can be immediately dismissed if they cease to be “fun,” “sometimes even before a job is finished.”32

In October 1919, the unrest in Egypt was still simmering. Britain had denied her request for independence at the Peace Conference, and when the leaders of the resistance were exiled to Malta the women of Cairo marched in protest. But the general strike had at last been called off and trade was returning to healthy levels between Egypt and the Levan

More recently, the ideal woman has been whatever she wants to be as long as she manages to act upon the belief that perfecting herself and streamlining her relationship to the world can be a matter of both work and pleasure—of “lifestyle.”

No momento em que as mulheres escapavam da venda de sua sexualidade num mercado matrimonial ao qual estavam confinadas pela dependência econômica, sua nova busca de independência econômica se defrontou com um sistema de permuta quase idêntico.

A woman, under capitalism, was no longer considered dangerous—she was helpless.

Eviction is a ubiquitous problem for black women, one that sociologist Matthew Desmond takes to be the undernoticed analogue of mass incarceration for black men, which constitutes a deep source of systemic injustice and disadvantage.

As inúmeras teorias sobre as crises de alimentação das mulheres enfatizaram a psicologia individual em detrimento da conduta pública,