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Feminists Rethink the Neoliberal State: Inequality, Exclusion, and Change. She argues that "neoliberal feminism is fast displacing liberal feminism" (54) and that "the concept of co-option is ultimately inadequate since it fails to capture the intricate and complex interactions between neoliberalism and feminism" (12). This neoliberal feminism has colonized "classic mainstream liberal feminism ... [and] is helping to produce a particular kind of feminist subject" (59) who sees the answers to her problems as lying within herself, never with forces outside of her own control. [Extracted from the article]