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Solidarity in neoliberal times -- Two models of non-exclusion : conflict in feminist and democratic theory -- Anti-social solidarities : the psychic life of domination -- Burdened action : the social formation of solidarity -- A more perfect union : the ends of conflict -- Conclusion : solidarity today

This article offers a reconstruction of Theodor Adorno's work as it concerns sex/gender and feminist praxis. Although the prevailing interpretation of Adorno's work conceptualizes its relationship to women as one of either exclusion or essentialism, I argue that both the reading of Sade's Juliette inDialectic of Enlightenment, as well as a number of Adorno's aphorisms inMinima Moralia, present complex feminist claims and commitments. Max Horkheimer and Adorno position Juliette as a subject of the Enlightenment, forestalling the possibility that womenquawomen are potentially utopian figures. I utilize Adorno's work inMinima Moraliato show that he—far from excluding or essentializing women—was interested in metaphorically capturing the subjective conditions developed by a system of binary sex/gender within a heteropatriarchal society. Indeed, one can find an iteration of queer theoretical commitments inMinima Moralia. As a result, I argue that he displays a number of straightforwardly feminist commitments: that a liberated society requires the disambiguation of sex from gender, affirming the nonnaturalness of our social sex/gender regime, and claiming that all subjects as gendered subjects are damaged by living within a heteropatriarchal society. Lastly, I provide preliminary evidence of Adorno's critique of (neo)liberal feminist praxis.