Feminism and the Early Frankfurt School

The early Frankfurt School and feminism can and should inform each other. This volume presents an original collection of scholarship bringing together scholars of the Frankfurt School and feminist scholars. Essays included in the volume explore ideas from the early Frankfurt School that were explicitly focused on sex, gender, and sexuality, and bring ideas from the early Frankfurt School into productive dialogue with historical and contemporary feminist theory. Ranging across philosophy, sociology, gender and sexuality studies, science studies, and cultural studies, the essays investigate heteropatriarchy, essentialism, identity, intersectional feminism, and liberation. Set against an alarming context of growing gender and related forms of authoritarianism, this timely volume demonstrates the necessity of thinking these powerhouse approaches together in a united front.

Contributors are: Cristian Arão, Karyn Ball, Nathalia N. Barroso, Mary Andrea Caputi, Sergio Bedoya Cortés, Jennifer L. Eagan, Lea Gekle, Imaculada Kangussu, Kristin Lawler, Jana McAuliffe, Mario Mikhail, Ryan Moore, Rafaela Pannain, Simon Reiners, Frida Sandström, Caio Vasconcellos, Tivadar Vervoort, Nicole Yokum, and Lambert Zuidervaart.

Christine A. Payne, Ph.D. (2018) University of California, San Diego, is Instructor of Women’s Studies and STS at San Diego State University and Instructor of Sociology at University of California, San Diego. She is co-editor of Nietzsche and Critical Social Theory: Affirmation, Animosity, and Ambiguity (Brill, 2020).

Jeremiah Morelock, Ph.D. (2019) is an Instructor of Sociology at Woods College of Advancing Studies, Boston College. He is editor of Critical Theory and Authoritarian Populism (UWP, 2018) and How to Critique Authoritarian Populism: Methodologies of the Frankfurt School (Brill, 2021). He is author of Pandemics, Authoritarian Populism, and Science Fiction: Medicine, Military, and Morality in American Film (Routledge, 2021) and co-author of The Society of the Selfie: Social Media and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy (UWP, 2021).