Nina Power – Jednodimenzionalna žena

Prezime Nine Power sve govori.

Njezina knjiga One-Dimensional Woman (Zero Books, 2009.) je ljuta knjiga, ali ljuta na nevjerojatno zabavan i konstruktivan način. Riječ je o vrlo snažnom i subverzivnom djelu koje bi sve feministkinje i žene koje to nisu trebale držati pored uzglavlja. Power na samom početku postavlja bitno pitanje: Gdje su nestale sve zanimljive žene? I daje objašnjenje zbog čega se može učiniti da ih nema: konzumerizam je učinio svoje.

Na sedamdesetak stranica, Nina Power poručuje da se feminizam mora pooštriti, istrguti iz veselog, šopingholičarskog sna u kojem se ženama nudi razblažena, kapitalistička verzija emanicipacije, po kojoj su i žene poput Sarah Palin – feministkinje, iako su, politički gledano, nešto posve suprotno.

Jednodimenzionalna žena, ukratko, kritizira feminizam koji to nije. Power se osvrće na pornografiju, rad, politiku i, naravno, konzumerizam koji se iza svega toga krije. Mnogo slojeva i pitanja koja nas tjeraju da kopamo dublje i razmišljamo više.

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Kratki ulomci:

Where have all the interesting women gone? If contemporary portrayal of womenkind were to be believed, contemporary female achievement would culminate in the ownership of expensive handbags, a vibrator, a job, a flat and a man – probably in that order. Of course, no one has to believe the TV shows, the magazines and the adverts, and many don’t. But how has it come to this? Did the desires of twentieth-century women’s liberation achieve their fulfilment in the shopper’s paradise of ‘naugthy’ self-pampering, playboy bunny pendants and bikini waxes?

Photoshop has turned fashion photography into something you’d want to lick, rather then emulate. And the whole libidinal economy of half-naked women staring up at you, as if you were the owner of a peculiarly classical male gaze. It’s not clear whether you are supposed to envy or admire them – but then, that’s not clear in the real world either. Clearly ‘not knowing which’ (model to look like, fashion to pick) is brilliant way of creating just the right kind of anxiety appropriate to a form of a shopping frenzy that will buy as many and as varied kinds of shoes, etc., in order to get as close as posible to this set of incoherent demands.