ABSTRACT

World, Class, Women has criticized some ways that feminist agendas are being constructed, particularly as expressed within the field of feminist pedagogy and the theoretical perspectives that support it. It challenges the ways that the feminist subject, as the bulwark of feminist empowerment, is fashioned around the idea of privacy separated from political power. It indicates that such an idea of privacy-focused as it is on workplace, professionalism, family, and home-precludes a necessary thinking of the direction of the public to set future agendas, supporting instead a set of meanings that undergird private power in the form of corporate accumulation, commercialism, and global management. Some of the terms that World, Class, Women identifies in this way are: identity, independence, emotions, caring, domesticity, irrationality, the personal, the Imaginary, desire, consumption, the Unconscious, marginality.