Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today

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

• Introduction - Khayaat Fakier, Diana Mulinari, Nora RäthzelPart I – Conceptualising1. Standpoint Theory – Cynthia Cockburn2. Outside in the Funding Machine - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak3. Contradictions in Marxist Feminism – Frigga Haug4. Ecofeminism as (Marxist) Sociology – Ariel Salleh5. The ‘Flat Ontology’ of Neoliberal Feminism – Jennifer Cotter6. The Byzantine Eunuch: Pre-capitalist Gender Category, ‘Tributary’ Modal Contradiction, and a Test for Materialist Feminism – Jules Gleeson7. Reading Marx Against the Grain: Rethinking the Exploitation of Care Work Beyond Profit-Seeking – Tine HaubnerPart II – Production8. Marx and Social Reproduction Theory: Three Different Historical Strands - Ankica Cakardic9. The Best Thing I Have Done is to Give Birth; the Second is to Strike – Paula Mulinari10. Women in Small Scale Fishing in South Africa: An Ecofeminist Engagement with the ‘Blue Economy’ - Natasha Solari and Khayaat Fakier11. The ‘crisis of care’ and the neoliberal restructuring of the public sector – a feminist Polanyian analysis – Rebecca Selberg12. Gender Regimes and Women’s Labour: Volvo Factories in Sweden, Mexico, and South Africa - Nora Räthzel, Diana Mulinari , Aina TollefsenPart III – Religions and Politics13. Religious Resistance: A Flower on the Chain or a Tunnel towards Liberation?– Gabriele Dietrich14. A Marxist-Feminist Perspective: From Former Yugoslavia To Turbo Fascism to Neoliberal Postmodern Fascist Europe - Marina Gržinic15. Feminism, Antisemitism and the Question of Palestine/Israel – Nira Yuval DavisPart IV – Solidarities16. Women in Brazilian's Trade Union Movement - Patricia Vieira Trópia17. Argentinean Feminist Movements: Debates from Praxis - Ana Isabel González Montes18. Marxist Feminism for a Global Women’s Movement Against Capitalism - Ligaya Lindio McGovern19. 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

This valuable collection of papers, shows that Marxist-Feminist debate is alive and well. Contributors from around the globe tackle the theoretical and strategic issues we are now facing.