Marxist-feminist theories and struggles today : essential writings on intersectionality, labour and ecofeminism / edited by Khayaat Fakier, Diana Mulinari, and Nora Räthzel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fakier, Khayaat, editor.

Mulinari, Diana, 1954- editor.

Räthzel, Nora, 1948- editor.

Commins-Holman Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialist feminism.

Ecofeminism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 367 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Zed Books Ltd, 2020.

Summary:

This vital new collection presents new Marxist-Feminist analyses of Capitalism as a gendered, racialized social formation that shapes and is shaped by specific nature-labour relationships. Leaving behind former overtly structuralist thinking, Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today interweaves strands of ecofeminism and intersectional analyses to develop an understanding of the relations of production and the production of nature through the interdependencies of gender, class, race and colonial relations. With contributions and analyses from scholars and theorists in both the global North and South, this volume offers a truly international lens that reveals the the vitality of contemporary global Marxist-Feminist thinking, as well as its continued relevance to feminist struggles across the globe.

Contents:

Part I Conceptualising p. 7

1 Standpoint theory p. 9 / Cynthia Cockburn

2 Outside in the funding machine p. 22 / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

3 Contradictions in Marxist feminism p. 27 / Frigga Haug

4 Ecofeminism as (Marxist) sociology p. 40 / Ariel Salleh

5 The 'flat ontology' of neoliberal feminism p. 51 / Jennifer Cotter

6 The Byzantine eunuch: pre-capitalist gender category, 'tributary' modal contradiction, and a test for materialist feminism p. 70 / Jules Gleeson

7 Reading Marx against the grain: rethinking the exploitation of care work beyond profit-seeking p. 88 / Tine Haubner

Part II Production p. 103

8 Marx and social reproduction theory: three different historical strands p. 105 / Ankica Cakardic

9 The best thing I have done is to give birth; the second is to strike p. 124 / Paula Mulinari

10 Women in small-scale fishing in South Africa: an ecofeminist engagement with the 'blue economy' p. 144 / Natasha Solari and Khayaat Fakier

11 The 'crisis of care' and the neoliberal restructuring of the public sector: a feminist Polanyian analysis p. 167 / Rebecca Selberg

12 Gender regimes and women's labour: Volvo factories in Sweden, Mexico, and South Africa p. 187 / Nora Räthzel and Diana Mulinari and Aina Tollefsen

Part III Religions and Politics p. 209

13 Religious resistance: a flower on the chain or a tunnel towards liberation? p. 211 / Gabriele Dietrich

14 A Marxist-Feminist perspective: from former Yugoslavia to turbo-fascism to neoliberal postmodern fascist Europe p. 231 / Marina Grzinic

15 Feminism, antisemitism, and the question of Palestine/Israel p. 249 / Nira Yuval-Davis

Part IV Solidarities p. 261

16 Women in Brazil's trade union movement p. 263 / Patrícia Vieira Trópia

17 Argentinean feminist movements: debates from praxis p. 276 / Ana Isabel González Montes

18 Marxist feminism for a global women's movement against capitalism p. 296 / Ligaya Lindio McGovern

19 Marxist/socialist feminist theory and practice in the USA today p. 306 / Nancy Holmstrom

20 Solidarity in troubled times: social movements in the face of climate change p. 327 / Kathryn Russell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Commins-Holman Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781786996152

1786996162

9781786996169

1786996154

OCLC:

1104063351

Publisher Number:

99984480162