Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today

Essential writings on Intersectionality, Postcolonialism and Ecofeminism

Khayaat Fakier, Diana Mulinari, Nora Räthzel, Khayaat Fakier, Diana Mulinari, Nora Räthzel

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN:
  9781786996169
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786996176
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Higher Education
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Notes on contributors
• Introduction
• Part I: Conceptualising
• Chapter 1: Standpoint theory
• Chapter 2: Outside in the funding machine
• Chapter 3: Contradictions in Marxist feminism
• Chapter 4: Ecofeminism as (Marxist) sociology
• Chapter 5: The ‘flat ontology’ of neoliberal feminism
• Chapter 6: The Byzantine eunuch: pre-capitalist gender category, ‘tributary’ modal contradiction, and a test for materialist feminism
• Chapter 7: Reading Marx against the grain: rethinking the exploitation of care work beyond profit-seeking
• Part II: Production
• Chapter 8: Marx and social reproduction theory: three different historical strands
• Chapter 9: The best thing I have done is to give birth; the second is to strike
• Chapter 10: Women in small-scale fishing in South Africa: an ecofeminist engagement with the ‘blue economy’
• Chapter 11: The ‘crisis of care’ and the neoliberal restructuring of the public sector: a feminist Polanyian analysis
• Chapter 12: Gender regimes and women’s labour: Volvo factories in Sweden, Mexico, and South Africa
• Part III: Religions and Politics
• Chapter 13: Religious resistance: a flower on the chain or a tunnel towards liberation?
• Chapter 14: A Marxist-Feminist perspective: from former Yugoslavia to turbo-fascism to neoliberal postmodern fascist Europe
• Chapter 15: Feminism, antisemitism, and the question of Palestine/Israel
• Part IV: Solidarities
• Chapter 16: Women in Brazil’s trade union movement
• Chapter 17: Argentinean feminist movements: debates from praxis
• Chapter 18: Marxist feminism for a global women’s movement against capitalism
• Chapter 19: Marxist/socialist feminist theory and practice in the USA today
• Chapter 20: Solidarity in troubled times: social movements in the face of climate change
• Index