This purely economic vision certainly omits many other factors (social, political…) necessary to gender equality, but more importantly, it does not fight for all women. The authors are very critical of liberal feminism, that feminism of the elites and of the system, that, far from being intersectional, is only emphasizing access to the job market in order to liberate women. 57) A criticism of liberal/corporate feminism Armed with a vision that is at once feminist, anti-racist, and anticapitalist, we pledge to play a major role in shaping our future.” (p. “Rejecting the zero-sum framework capitalism constructs for us, feminism for the 99 percent aims to unite existing and future movements into a broad-based global insurgency. Their book Feminism for the 99% is intended to be an international manifesto, following the model of the Manifesto of the Communist Party By Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, for a feminist that is anti-capitalist and truly at the benefit of the majority and not a privileged elite.

All three are professors at American universities and their research focuses on feminism, philosophy, socialism and marxism. Feminism for the 99% is a manifesto published in 2009 by the editions Verso and written by three authors: the Italian Cinzia Arruzza, the American Nancy Fraser and the Indian Tithi Bhattacharya.

Feminism for the 99% by Cinzia Arruzza