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Women’s Studies/
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by Johanna Brenner
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THE
SOCIALIST FEMINIST PROJECT
A Contemporary Reader in Theory and
Politics
edited by
Nancy Holmstrom
“This anthology will make an
excellent classroom reading for both undergraduates and experienced students.
It will also prove a useful scholarly resource even for readers well-versed in
the history and theory of the feminist movement. Finally, the collection has
practical potential in the hands of organizers and activists. This is a sign of
the reader''s success: it is a versatile and interesting read that will
"connect" for a broad audience. I urge you to take it up.”
— KARLA MOMBERGER, Esq., Association for Feminist
Anthropology
Socialist feminist theorizing is flourishing today. This collection is
intended to shows its strengths and resources and convey a sense of it as an
ongoing project. Not every contribution to that project bears the same
theoretical label, but the writings collected here share a broad aim of
understanding women’s subordination in a way which integrates class and
gender—as well as aspects of women’s identity such as race,
ethnicity, and sexual orientation—with the aim of liberating women.
The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and
Politics brings together the most important recent socialist feminist
writings on a wide range of topics: sex and reproduction, the family, wage
labor, social welfare and public policy, the place of sex and gender in
politics, and the philosophical foundations of socialist feminism. Although
focusing on recent writings, the collection shows how these build on a history
of struggle.
These writings demonstrate the range, depth, and vitality of contemporary
socialist feminist debates. They also testify to the distinctive capacity of
this project to address issues in a way that embraces collective experience and
action while at the same time enabling each person to speak in their own
personal voice.
Table of Contents
Introduction by Nancy Holmstrom
Foremothers/Fathers
Part I: Sex, Sexuality and Reproduction
Dorothy Allison, A Question of Class
Micaela
Di Leonardo and Roger Lancaster, Gender, Sexuality and Political
Economy
Emily
Martin, Premenstrual Syndrome, Work Discipline, and Anger
Rosalind
P. Petchesky, Human Rights, Reproductive Health and Economic Justice: Why
They are Indivisible
Rosemary
Hennessy, Reclaiming Marxist Feminism for a Need-Based Sexual
Politics
Part II: Family: Love, Labor and Power
Judith
Stacey, The Family is Dead, Long Live our Families
Janice
Haaken, Stories of Survival: Class, Race, and Domestic Violence
Purvi
Shah, Redefining the Home
Cherrie
Moraga, My Brother’s Sex Was White, Mine Brown
Stephanie
Coontz, Revisiting Marx and Engels on the Family
Ann
Ferguson, On Conceiving Motherhood and Sexuality: A Feminist-Materialist
Approach
Deniz
Kandiotti, Bargaining with Patriarchy
Temma
Kaplan, The Disappearing Fathers under Global Capitalism
Part III: Wage Labor and Struggles
Chandra
Talpade Mohanty, Women Workers and Capitalist Scripts: Ideologies of
Domination, Common Interests, and the Politics of Solidarity
Nancy
MacLean, The Hidden History of Affirmative Action: Working Women’s
Struggles in the 1970s and the Gender of Class
Leslie
Salzinger, Making Fantasies Real: Producing Women Men and Women on the
Maquila Shop Floor
Elizabeth
Oglesby, Machos and Machetes in Guatemala’s Cane Fields
Jo
Bindman, An International Perspective on Slavery in the Sex
Industry
Kamala
Kempadoo, Globalizing Sex Workers’ Rights
Part IV: Economics, Social Welfare and Public
Policy
Mimi
Abramovitz, Still Under Attack: Women and Welfare Reform
Chris
Tilly and Randy Albelda, Toward a Strategy for Women’s Economic
Equality
Angela Y.
Davis, Public Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden
Punishment of Women
Maxine
Molyneux, Conceptualizing Women’s Interests
Part V: Politics and Social Change
Sheila
Rowbotham, Appreciating Our Beginnings
Elizabeth
Martinez, Listen Up, Anglo Sisters
Ellen
Meiksins Wood, Capitalism and Human Emancipation: Race, Gender and
Democracy
Cynthia
Enloe, Militarizing Women’s Lives
Mary E.
Hawkesworth, Democratization: Reflections on Gendered Dislocations in the
Public Sphere
Leith
Mullings, Mapping Gender in African American Political Strategies
Johanna
Brenner, Intersections, Locations, and Capitalist Class Relations:
Intersectionality from a Marxist Perspective
Part VI: Nature, Society and Knowledge
Nancy
Hartsock, The Feminist Standpoint Revisited
Nancy
Holmstrom, A Marxist Theory of Women’s Nature
Val
Plumwood, The Ecopolitics Debate and the Politics of Nature
Meera
Nanda, Women and the Third World: Exploring the Dangers of
Difference
Julie
Sze, Expanding Environmental Justice: Asian American Feminists’
Contribution
Acknowledgments
Index
About the
Author
NANCY HOLMSTROMis Professor of Philosophy at
Rutgers University in Newark, and co-editor of Not for Sale: In Defense of
Public Goods.
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