Enlightenment Evening: Can Free Markets be Feminist?
Join us on Thursday, 14th November for a talk on the intersection between women's liberties and market freedom.
Economics weighs heavily on feminist minds. Labour rights, maternity leave, workplace discrimination, black-market healthcare, global supply chains; the relationship between women and capital reveals much about gendered distinctions in society.
Nonetheless, free markets get slandered as anti-feminist. Thinkers like Maria Mies (1986), Silvia Federici (2004), Catherine Rottenberg (2018) and Nancy Fraser (2013; 2019) accuse neoliberalism of entrenching—not eroding—misogyny.
The Adam Smith Institute disagrees, and invites you to discuss how free-market economics serves feminist ends. From revealing women’s interests to providing an escape from sexism wielded by the state, come and hear the case for the defence of neoliberal feminism.
We will be hearing from Dr. Victoria Bateman, an economic historian and author of the books “The Sex Factor: How Women made the West Rich” (2019) and "Naked Feminism: Breaking the Cult of Female Modesty" (2023). She has twenty years experience teaching economics and economic history at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and is known for her feminist activism in defence of women’s bodily freedom.
Doors open at 6pm for a sharp 6.30pm start. There will be a 15-minute address by Dr. Bateman followed by 10–15 minutes of audience Q&A.
Housekeeping:
Date: Thursday, 14th November 2024
Time: 6:00-8:00pm (no earlier - come rain or shine!)
Where: 23 Great Smith Street, London, SW1P 3DJ
Refreshments provided 🍷