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Visionary Critique | 57www.jrfm.eu 2016, 2/2, 45–66 rights and further reflections on what it means to be male in the world of work and family.29 The film ends with a fleeting sign of hope that Rosetta might yet experience relationships as mutual and respectful, affirming her sense of self and dignity rather than creating dependency. Yet overall, the film offers a critical perspec- tive on the damaging effects of neo-liberalist capitalism on women, in which re- lationships of care can become burdens for women and make them vulnerable in different, more immediate ways than men. Two Days, One Night: EMPOWERMENT THROUGH RELATIONSHIP Without denying the continued problematic aspects of the capitalist organiza- tion of relationships and labor, Two Days, One Night (2014) can be seen as a vision of how gender, self, relationship, family and work can interrelate in a way that is empowering for individuals and supportive of the common good, a vi- sion that can be understood in terms of the universalization of an ethics of care and the socialization of the feminine. Universal care feminists acknowledge the positive value of care work, mutual responsibility, relationship and solidar- ity, but critique the notion of difference feminism that women are inherently more capable of living these values than men. Instead, they argue for the need to “achiev[e] social consensus around an understanding of caring activities as valuable and necessary practices that respond to universally-shared conditions of human embodiment.”30 Along similar lines, Gloria H. Albrecht calls for the socialization of the feminine as the general recognition “of the social value of the stereotypical virtues of the feminine. That is, who we are as moral agents- in-relationships-of-care-and-trust should not (cannot, does not) metamorphose in the commute to and from the workplace.”31 The film provides a glimpse into the socialization of the feminine in its representation of its female protagonist, Sandra, her husband, Manu, and her relationships with friends and colleagues. This vision is limited to an individual case and does not claim a more structural change, but it nevertheless shows that the world of work and relationships as we know it is not the only possible one. While Sandra was on sick leave, her employer realized that the work could get done without her, and thus, when she returns, he asks her colleagues to vote either for her keeping her job or for each of them receiving a one-time bo- nus of one thousand euros. She now has a weekend – two days and a night – to 29 See Hinze 2009, 81–82. 30 Hinze 2009, 84. 31 Albrecht 2002, 150.