Feminism. Art. Capitalism
Book • 2025
Angela Dimitrakaki's Feminism, Art, Capitalism develops a Marxist feminist framework to examine how capitalist modernity structures art institutions, labor, technology, and feminist practice.
The book traces historical and contemporary contradictions feminist artists and movements face within the capitalist art field, including autonomy versus dependency, reform versus revolution, and the shifting boundaries of work.
Dimitrakaki situates discussions across the 'long modern,' global geopolitics, and technological change, arguing that capitalism absorbs and neutralizes critical art and feminist gains.
She foregrounds questions of labor, immateriality, and the subsumption of bodies by technology, and interrogates whether emancipatory aims can be realized under capitalist conditions.
The book concludes by pointing to future research agendas, including a focus on the family and its role in contemporary capitalist formations.
The book traces historical and contemporary contradictions feminist artists and movements face within the capitalist art field, including autonomy versus dependency, reform versus revolution, and the shifting boundaries of work.
Dimitrakaki situates discussions across the 'long modern,' global geopolitics, and technological change, arguing that capitalism absorbs and neutralizes critical art and feminist gains.
She foregrounds questions of labor, immateriality, and the subsumption of bodies by technology, and interrogates whether emancipatory aims can be realized under capitalist conditions.
The book concludes by pointing to future research agendas, including a focus on the family and its role in contemporary capitalist formations.
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