In this book Ana Alicia Solís de Alba carries out an extensive and lucid analysis of the modalities that sexism assumes in the neoliberal present of capitalism, that is, the decanted expression of the historical development of patriarchy.

The author carries out a historical review of the emergence, development, crisis and reformulation of the neoliberal hegemonic model marked by a new patriarchal offensive against the rights achieved by women in decades of feminist struggles.

In her research, the author addresses topics such as the forms of the contemporary capitalist State and the composition of the hegemonic groups that dominate and administer it; the counter-reform of the State in Mexico and in the Western world; the consequences of abandoning the welfare state to give way to the minimal-evaluative state; the crisis of state institutions; the loss of national sovereignty and the responsibility of international agencies in this regard; the citizenship and individualization of social and political life; the role of the so-called non-governmental organizations in the neoliberalization of relations between State and society; the degradation of the environment as part of the transfer of natural resources, work and wealth to central economies with the complicity of governments; the naturalization of sexism and racism following neoliberal labor policies of reconciliation of work and family life; labor flexibility and the consequent deepening of poverty and inequality; privatizations that have destroyed national sovereignty, social security and collective identities; the responsibility of institutional feminism in neoliberal reproduction under the argument of the free market.

For this researcher, the fight to eliminate the sexual division of labor, to achieve a non-patriarchal State, is a fight that has not ended and requires commitment and rigor, but also originality, criticism and courage to be an effective weapon in this time when relevant transformations are coming in our country.

Lissete Silva Lazcano/Nina Torres Baños