دانلود کتاب Marxist Feminist Theories and Struggles Today: Essential Writings on Intersectionality, Postcolonialism and Ecofeminism

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Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Notes on contributors
Introduction
The need for Marxist-Feminist analyses and practices
Notes
References
Part I: Conceptualising
Chapter 1: Standpoint theory
The gendering of standpoint theory
Situated and plural knowledge
Labour as Marxist-feminist problematic
Standpoint derived from other phases of life activity
Truth or power?
Notes
References
Chapter 2: Outside in the funding machine
Note
Chapter 3: Contradictions in Marxist feminism
About the title
Our theses: Marxist feminism as a transformative power
Women as an illusionary commons
First contradiction
Traditional feelings
Learning from Brecht
The second contradiction: construction and deconstruction
Entering history
Re-reading Marx and Luxemburg
Provisional conclusions
Notes
References
Chapter 4: Ecofeminism as (Marxist) sociology
Realism, constructionism, and the humanity–nature question
The division between productive and reproductive labour
Dialectical process: immanent and transcendent meanings
Looking through an embodied materialist lens
Holding nature: the meta-industrial class and its vantage point
Common objections from the modernist division of labour
An inclusive participatory theory / strategy for global resistance
Notes
References
Chapter 5: The ‘flat ontology’ of neoliberal feminism
Assembling the attack on dialectics
Rebranding capitalist ontology as feminist market freedom
Against market feminism: the dialectics of red feminism
Note
References
Chapter 6: The Byzantine eunuch: pre-capitalist gender category, ‘tributary’
modal contradiction, and a test for materialist feminism
The systems debate: Arruzza’s ‘three theses’ on gender and capitalism
Introducing Byzantine eunuchs
Existing scholarship on eunuchs: from telltale ‘Oriental’ figures, to gender construction
Eunuchs and class society
Eunuchs and ‘patriarchy’ as a legal principle
Historical materialism and Byzantine history
Teasing out the contradictions: an imperial state
Eunuchs and the state
Prejudice against eunuchs
Symeon the Sanctified: state administration, gender transgression
As go eunuchs, so the world (the contradictory condition of effeminated manhood)
The case for ‘casting the net’ into the pre-modern
Notes
References
Chapter 7: Reading Marx against the grain: rethinking the exploitation of
care work beyond profit-seeking
Introduction
The Marxian concept of exploitation
Domestic work and the labour theory of value
Profit-fixation in Marxist-Feminist debates: a way out
The exploitation of care work in Germany’s elder-care quasi-market
Conclusion: social vulnerability and the link between exclusion and exploitation
References
Part II: Production
Chapter 8: Marx and social reproduction theory: three different
historical strands
Introduction
Marx: reproduction of capitalism as a whole
Social reproduction theory: three historical and two theoretical strands
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 9: The best thing I have done is to give birth; the second is
to strike
Care, emotions, and solidarity in the making of a strike
Struggles of care, caring for struggles
Devastation and resignation, but who cares?
The blog: creating new horizons of struggle
The strike is here: bring on the cinnamon rolls
Final reflections
Notes
References
Chapter 10: Women in small-scale fishing in South Africa: an ecofeminist
engagement with the ‘blue economy’
Introduction
Theoretical positions
The blue economy: a hurried approach to the development of ocean resources
Research methods in context: Steenberg Cove, Kleinmond, and research selection
Discussion and analysis of findings in Steenberg Cove and Kleinmond
Conclusion: ecofeminism as politics
Notes
References
Chapter 11: The ‘crisis of care’ and the neoliberal restructuring of the
public sector: a feminist Polanyian analysis
Introduction
Production and reproduction: invented and re-imagined
… to restructuring and neoliberal transformations
The public sector workers under financialised capitalism
Conceptualising the crisis of care
Thinking with Polanyi, Fraser, and Burawoy: the potentials of the care crisis
References
Chapter 12: Gender regimes and women’s labour: Volvo factories in Sweden,
Mexico, and South Africa
Introduction
Theoretical reflections
On method
Three factories, three gender regimes
Sweden – gender equality as gender segregation
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
Notes
References
Part III: Religions and Politics
Chapter 13: Religious resistance: a flower on the chain or a tunnel
towards liberation?
Limitation and potential of the Marxist critique of religion
The protest potential within religion
Civil Society as a space of contestation for democratic rights
The protest potential lived out; conversion as a tunnel for liberation
New Alliances in times of rising ‘Hindutva’ nationalism
Where do we go from here?
Notes
References
Chapter 14: A Marxist-Feminist perspective: from former Yugoslavia to
turbo-fascism to neoliberal postmodern fascist Europe
Feminist analysis in the time of necrocapitalism
Turbo-fascism and postmodern fascism
The colonial/racial divide
Sexual difference
Refugees and necrocapitalism
Becoming human
Coda
Notes
References
Chapter 15: Feminism, antisemitism, and the question of Palestine/Israel
Introduction: why is the question of contemporary antisemitism and its relationship to the Palestine/Israel conflict a feminist issue?
Racism and antisemitism
Antisemitism and the Left
Is Israel the legitimate representative of and a safe haven to world Jewry?
The conflicting claims of rights over Palestine/Israel
Antisemitism, identity politics, and socialist feminism
The overall context: the rise of contemporary right-wing antisemitism
References
Part IV: Solidarities
Chapter 16: Women in Brazil’s trade union movement
Introduction
Women’s performance in Brazilian trade unions: ‘the new unionism’
Women’s performance on the unionist agenda in the 1980s and 1990s
Women’s performance at the unionist agenda in the 2000s: advances and limits
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter 17: Argentinean feminist movements: debates from praxis
Introduction
Recovering our historical genealogies
The construction of the Argentinean nation-state
The first feminists
When women won their public space
The turbulent years
State terrorism
Times of convergence? Contradictory synthesis?
The feminist movement today: agreements and disagreements
Demands and agreements
Disagreements
National and popular feminism
Feminism within parties of the Left
The challenges for feminists in the present political landscape
Final open reflections
Notes
References
Chapter 18: Marxist feminism for a global women’s movement
against capitalism
Introduction
The Marxist-Feminist frame as an analytical frame for a global women’s movement
The Marxist-Feminist frame shaping women’s movements
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 19: Marxist/socialist feminist theory and practice
in the USA today
Varieties of feminism
Varieties of socialist feminism: one system or two
What is a ‘system’?
Intersectionality
A framework model: one non-reductive system
Variations within one-system theories: wages for housework and social reproduction feminism
Socialist feminism in practice: varieties of intersecting struggles
Self-organisation
Notes
References
Chapter 20: Solidarity in troubled times: social movements in the face of
climate change
Section 1. A just transition: fighting for collective control over energy production and distribution
Section 2. Solidarity love, a theoretical approach
Section 3. Conclusion: an abolitionist epistemology of moral outrage
Notes
References
Index