Perverted Care in the State of Exception: A Feminist Analysis

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dc.abstract.enThis article offers a critical feminist analysis of the perversions of care that appear in moments when care is instrumentalized by neoliberal and fascist states to cover for financial cuts and repressive or controlling actions of security. It follows Michel Foucault’s analysis of biopolitical power in the context of the state of exception and the contemporary return to fascism, as well as the works of Giorgio Agamben. It offers a detailed analysis of the feminist theories of care expounded by Nancy Fraser and Joan Tronto, highlighting the need to strengthen our critique of the appropriations and abuses of care in its neoliberal, imperial, and fundamentalist perversions. While discussing social reproduction theory and other feminist revindications of care, the article argues in favor of combining the critique of exploitation with a critique of power, as suggested by Angela McRobbie, Sarai Aharoni, and Johanna Oksala. The Hiacynt police operations conducted in 1980s Poland to surveil and control gay men, as well as more contemporary examples of conservative perversions of care, are discussed to showcase the need for their feminist critique. This article’s main claim is that a feminist critique of perverted care is a necessary companion to any critique of today’s neoliberal state of exception, as the fascist doctrine re-emergences in different countries by means of right-wing fundamentalism.
dc.affiliationInstytut Nauk Humanistycznych
dc.contributor.authorMajewska, Ewa
dc.date.access2026-05-05
dc.date.accessioned2026-05-05T12:01:07Z
dc.date.available2026-05-05T12:01:07Z
dc.date.created2025-07-10
dc.date.issued2026-05-04
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dc.description.grantnumber2021/43/B/HS2/00579
dc.description.granttitlePubliczni wbrew woli. Wytwarzanie podmiotu w archiwach akcji "Hiacynt".
dc.description.issue4
dc.description.physical803-828
dc.description.sdgGoodHealthAndWellBeing
dc.description.sdgGenderEquality
dc.description.sdgReducedInequalities
dc.description.sdgSustainableCitiesAndCommunities
dc.description.sdgPeaceJusticeAndStrongInstitutions
dc.description.sdgPartnershipForTheGoals
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.description.volume51
dc.identifier.doi10.1086/740115
dc.identifier.eissn1545-6943
dc.identifier.issn0097-9740
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/2325
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.1086/740115
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationnauki o kulturze i religii
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dc.titlePerverted Care in the State of Exception: A Feminist Analysis
dc.title.journalSigns
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