1947–
American philosopher who criticised identity politics and liberal feminism through the twin concepts of redistribution and recognition
Answering Judith Butler in "Heterosexism, Misrecognition and Capitalism" (New Left Review, 1998), she denied treating gay and lesbian oppression as "merely cultural" and located their disagreement in their views of Marxism's legacy and of contemporary capitalism.
An American philosopher and critical theorist, born in Baltimore. She studied philosophy at Bryn Mawr College and took her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center in 1980, taught at Northwestern University and from 1995 at the New School. She divides justice into redistribution, a fairer distribution of resources, and recognition of differences between social identities and groups, and argues that the recognition claims of movements since the 1960s and 1970s eclipsed problems of maldistribution. She debated "Merely Cultural" with Judith Butler in 1998, later called liberal feminism the "handmaiden" of capitalism, and wrote Feminism for the 99% (2019) and Cannibal Capitalism (2022).
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- 1980–