The Mediocracy keyword-samir-amin the future of socialist feminism

the future of socialist feminism in the wake of Communism’s collapse

undogmatic attention to broad theoretical issues as well as to empirical detail

but also from the prison of free trade and militarism that has delivered successive crises

cultural studies

Sara Maitland

The Mediocracy keyword-samir-amin the future of socialist feminismGenerating great controversy on its publication in France, The Mediocracy argues that a veritable counter revolution in intellectual life has seen the period of the master thinkers of the 1960s succeeded by an era of generalized mediocrity. Where Althusser or Lacan, Foucault or Derrida once held centre stage, today restorationist currents prevail in academia and on television. Fuelled by a complaisant media, contemporary French ideology seeks neither