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It focuses on how women’s work produced new laws, policies, and institutional rationalities, reshaping understandings and practices of politics and social justice claims. The chapter contrasts theoretical accounts of mainstreaming and the appropriation of identity politics, analyzing contradictions and ambivalence to reopen possibilities for present-day political agency.","Newman, Janet. \"Activism, Neoliberalism and Gendered Labour.\" Working the Spaces of Power: Activism, Neoliberalism and Gendered Labour. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. 151–170. Bloomsbury Collections. Web. 30 Dec. 2022. \u003C[http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781849666725.ch-008](http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781849666725.ch-008)> .  \nDownloaded from Bloomsbury Collections, [www.bloomsburycollections.com](www.bloomsburycollections.com), 30 December 2022, 10:04 UTC.  \nAccess provided by: Perpustakaan Nasional Indonesia  \nCopyright © Janet Newman 2012. You may share this work for non-commercial purposes only, provided you give attribution to the copyright holder and the publisher, and provide a link to the Creative Commons licence.  \n8  \nActivism, Neoliberalism and Gendered Labour  \nThis book is about change; about how different generations of women have  \nworked to bring about fundamental shifts in politics, governance and culture. Their labour produced a succession of new laws, new policies and new institutional rationalities. It generated shifts in how‘politics’ was understood and enacted, and how claims for social justice, recognition and voice were realized. But how can these transformations be situated in contemporary narratives of the rise of neoliberalism and the erasure of feminist politics?  \nIn this, the first of two concluding chapters, I want to offer some response to the plethora of recent feminist work on the complicity of feminism, LGBT and other movements in the rollout of neoliberal economic strategies and ruling relations (though the work on feminism has been most prominent and thus drives my engagement with the debates) . The first two sections engage with literatures on feminism and neoliberalism respectively and are largely theoretical. I then reflect on how the work of participants in this book can offer insights into political-cultural analyses of the present, revisiting previous chapters to show how neoliberalism works across the different ‘landscapes of antagonism’ traced in previous chapters. My aims are both theoretical and political. Theoretically, I want to puncture the seeming coherence of narratives of the incorporation and erasure of feminism by reintroducing questions of contradiction and ambivalence. Politically, I want to open up a space fora politics of the present; one that does not simply deny the possibilities of political agency by rolling its achievements into accounts of the progressive erasure of politics in the face of all consuming neoliberalism.  \nFeminism and neoliberalism  \nThe coincidence between feminism and global capitalism has been a central concern of feminist scholarship. Such scholarship offers subtle arguments and well-developed theory to which I cannot hope to do justice here. But I want to draw out two interlinked narratives: first, on how processes of ‘mainstreaming’served both to acknowledge and depoliticize feminist claims; and second, on how neoliberalism appropriated identity politics. These narratives rest on rather  \ndifferent conceptual and political assumptions. 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