This article focuses on how middle-class women identify with ‘neoliberal feminism’ within the context of UK austerity by drawing on interviews with 17 women in Leeds, London and Brighton during 2014 and 2015. The article argues that the way in which these women identify with, understand and discuss whom feminism is important for, converges with a range of values present in the austerity discourse. In line with the principles of ‘late modernity’, feminism is spoken through an individualised lifestyle discourse, with an emphasis on the need to be resilient and have a positive mental attitude to deal with forms of inequality. Due to the particularity of the context, women create distance, and classed and racialised distinctions away from women who are suffering in the current context. This distancing is crucial to the maintenance of the austerity project, since, instead of helping to put an end to gender inequality, this form of feminism aids the legitimation of hierarchical relationships and gendered socio-economic inequalities. This is produced via a form of indifference towards those who are understood as ‘bad subjects’, perceived as being unable to manage and who are thus undeserving of help. Mapping out the contours of the entanglement of feminist narratives with an anti-emancipatory narrative is thus crucial for widening understandings of the politics of austerity and contemporary engagements with feminism.

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“新自由主义女权主义”：使紧缩的性别道德项目合法化

本文通过 2014 年和 2015 年对利兹、伦敦和布莱顿的 17 名女性的采访，重点关注中产阶级女性如何在英国紧缩的背景下认同“新自由主义女权主义”。与、理解和讨论女权主义对谁很重要，与紧缩话语中存在的一系列价值观相融合。根据“晚期现代性”的原则，女权主义是通过个性化的生活方式话语来表达的，强调需要具有弹性和积极的心态来应对各种形式的不平等。由于语境的特殊性，女性与在当前语境中受苦的女性产生了距离、等级和种族差异。这种疏远对于维持紧缩计划至关重要，因为这种形式的女权主义非但没有帮助结束性别不平等，反而有助于使等级关系和性别化的社会经济不平等合法化。这是通过对那些被理解为“坏科目”、被认为无法管理并因此不值得帮助的人漠不关心的形式产生的。因此，描绘出女权主义叙事与反解放叙事纠缠不清的轮廓对于扩大对紧缩政治和当代女权主义参与的理解至关重要。这是通过对那些被理解为“坏科目”、被认为无法管理并因此不值得帮助的人漠不关心的形式产生的。因此，描绘出女权主义叙事与反解放叙事纠缠不清的轮廓对于扩大对紧缩政治和当代女权主义参与的理解至关重要。这是通过对那些被理解为“坏科目”、被认为无法管理并因此不值得帮助的人漠不关心的形式产生的。因此，描绘出女权主义叙事与反解放叙事纠缠不清的轮廓对于扩大对紧缩政治和当代女权主义参与的理解至关重要。