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This paper, building on an understanding of sexual violence as a strategy of enclosure (Phipps 2023), explores how women are re-enclosed in post?-neoliberal economies.

Within crises of both economic production and social reproduction, re-enclosure facilitates primitive accumulation designed to stabilise contemporary capitalist systems. This happens in hyper-extractive industries in the Global South with production models reliant on sexual violence, and emergent modes of extraction in the Global North that have been termed ‘communicative’ or ‘platform’ capitalism and are also highly sexually violent. The latter forms of re-enclosure perform a shift from the femocapitalist model of neoliberal economics that interpellates bourgeois white Western women as perfect submissive and self-managing subjects. Sexual violence is a key tool in this shift from more incorporative/commodified economic relations to more neo-feudal (Dean 2020) forms of servitude.