Description
Global events, from economic crisis to social unrest and militarization, disproportionately affect women. Yet around the world it is also women who are leading the struggle against oppression and exploitation. In light of renewed interest in Marxist theory among many women activists and academics, Marxism and Feminism presents a contemporary and accessible Marxist–feminist analysis on a host of issues. It reassesses previous debates and seeks to answer pressing questions of how we should understand the relationship between patriarchy and capitalism, and how we can envision a feminist project which emancipates both women and society.
With contributions from both renowned scholars and new voices, Marxism and Feminism is set to become the foundational text for modern Marxist-feminist thought.
Chapter
Overcoming the Hyphenation in Marxist-Feminism
Part One: Class and Race in Marxism and Feminism
French Revolution: Olympe de Gouges
Bourgeois Ethnological Studies
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Gender Relations in Intenational Marxism after Marx
Capitalism and Patriarchy
The Concept of Gender Relations
Conclusion: Gender Relations are Relations of Production
3: The Marx within Feminism
Marx’s Critique of Feuerbach
4: Building from Marx: Reflections on ‘Race’, Gender and Class
Part Two: Marxist-Feminist Keywords
Marx’s Critique of Bourgeois Democracy
Feminist Struggles for Freedom within and against Bourgeois Democracy
Implications for Revolutionary Feminist Democratic Praxis
More or Less Traditional Marxist Explanation of Contemporary Financialization
Marxist-Feminist Interventions
Ghetto Imperialism and Sex Trafficking: Primitive Accumulation and Shadow Economics
Ideology, Feminist Theory and Women’s Standpoint
8: Imperialism and Primitive Accumulation
Contemporary Rethinking of Dispossession
Accumulation by Dispossession
Critiques of Accumulation by Dispossession
Accumulation by Dispossession, Primitive Accumulation and Imperialism
Imperialism and Sub-Imperialism
Federici, Gender and Differentiated Primitive Accumulation
The Women’s Liberation Movement and ‘Triple Jeopardy’
Intersectionality as a Juridical Intervention
Marxist-Feminist Critique
Labour-Power Is What Makes Us Human
Marx's Concept of Labour-Power under Capitalism
Emotional Labour: Extending Marx’s Concept of Labour-Power
Ensuring the Reproduction of Labour-Power: A Condition for Capitalism’s Emergence
The Social Reproduction of Labour-Power: An Issue of Gender and Class
11: Nation and Nationalism
Marxist-Feminist Theorization: Requirements and Obstacles
12: Patriarchy/Patriarchies
Autonomy: North American, British and Western European Currents
Co-Constitution: A Perspective from India
Distributions: Familial, State and Market Patriarchal Regimes
Some Philosophical Considerations
On Commons: Communism within Capitalism?
What Is Really Behind the Co-Optation of the Commons?
A Different Kind of Labour
The Old and New Commons are Both Old
Why the Revolutionary Feminists Retreated
The Gendering of Standpoint Theory
Situated and Plural Knowledge
Labour as Marxist-Feminist Problematic
Standpoint Derived from Other Phases of Life Activity
16: Epilogue: Gender after Class