Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today

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 Gržinic
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