Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today

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.

Nora Räthzel is a Senior Professor in the Department of Sociology at Umeå University, Sweden Diana Mulinari is a Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at Lund University, Sweden Khayaat Fakier is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosh University, South Africa.

Introduction - Khayaat Fakier, Diana Mulinari, Nora Räthzel Part I - Conceptualising 1. Standpoint Theory - Cynthia Cockburn 2. Outside in the Funding Machine - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 3. Contradictions in Marxist Feminism - Frigga Haug 4. Ecofeminism as (Marxist) Sociology - Ariel Salleh 5. The 'Flat Ontology' of Neoliberal Feminism - Jennifer Cotter 6. The Byzantine Eunuch: Pre-capitalist Gender Category, 'Tributary' Modal Contradiction, and a Test for Materialist Feminism - Jules Gleeson 7. Reading Marx Against the Grain: Rethinking the Exploitation of Care Work Beyond Profit-Seeking - Tine Haubner Part II - Production 8. Marx and Social Reproduction Theory: Three Different Historical Strands - Ankica Cakardic 9. The Best Thing I Have Done is to Give Birth; the Second is to Strike - Paula Mulinari 10. Women in Small Scale Fishing in South Africa: An Ecofeminist Engagement with the 'Blue Economy' - Natasha Solari and Khayaat Fakier 11. The 'crisis of care' and the neoliberal restructuring of the public sector - a feminist Polanyian analysis - Rebecca Selberg 12. Gender Regimes and Women's Labour: Volvo Factories in Sweden, Mexico, and South Africa - Nora Räthzel, Diana Mulinari , Aina Tollefsen Part III - Religions and Politics 13. Religious Resistance: A Flower on the Chain or a Tunnel towards Liberation?- Gabriele Dietrich 14. A Marxist-Feminist Perspective: From Former Yugoslavia To Turbo Fascism to Neoliberal Postmodern Fascist Europe - Marina Grzinic 15. Feminism, Antisemitism and the Question of Palestine/Israel - Nira Yuval Davis Part IV - Solidarities 16. Women in Brazilian's Trade Union Movement - Patricia Vieira Trópia 17. Argentinean Feminist Movements: Debates from Praxis - Ana Isabel González Montes 18. Marxist Feminism for a Global Women's Movement Against Capitalism - Ligaya Lindio McGovern 19. Marxist/Socialist Feminist Theory and Practice in the USA Today - Nancy Holmstrom 20. Solidarity in Troubled Times: Social Movements in the Face of Climate Change - Kathryn Russell