ABSTRACT
Donna Haraway asks how socialist-feminism can organize itself to oppose the dominant social order. Haraway cites a great number of writers in the manifesto, engaging directly with some of them and contextualizing her argument with the others. Bernice Reagon’s “Coalition Politics, Turning the Century” is a significant essay in Haraway’s attempt to articulate a politics of affiliation rather than identity. Sandoval’s essay, “US Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Oppositional Consciousness in the Postmodern World” on “oppositional consciousness” examines the ways in which categories of identity politics tend to be based on exclusions. Fredric Jameson’s theory of postmodernism as a dominant cultural formation and a structure of lived experience also appears in Haraway’s analysis. Haraway’s major critique is of MacKinnon’s article, “Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State.” For MacKinnon, patriarchal society involves the “organized expropriation of the sexuality of some for the use of others,” and this is what defines and controls women’s experience.
