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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 analys...
CONTENTS
Notes on contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Khayaat Fakier, Diana Mulinari, and Nora Räthzel
Part I: Conceptualising. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
1 Standpoint...
Essential new analysis of capitalism as a gendered, racialized social formation that shapes, and is shaped by, specific nature-labour relationships, with perspectives from the global North and South.
This paper argues that the rights of women to be included in decisions about energy use and their experiences with energy use are ignored. Using an eco-feminist perspective this article explores how the rhetoric of 'renewable energy for the poor' which bypasses women's voices and experience in domestic uses of renewable energy result in reverse out...
This article focuses on the activities of a modest feminist initiative called “The Feminist Table.” Established in 2012, it is one of a number of initiatives trying to develop grassroots eco-feminist solidarity among black women in contemporary South Africa. It uses the Marxist feminist notion of social reproduction, i.e. the unpaid care work which...
Taking a unique comparative approach to the respective development paths of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), this book shows that people and governments in all three countries are faced with similar challenges of heightened insecurity, caused by liberalization and structural adjustment. The ways in which governments, as well as individuals an...
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This vignette illustrates some of the aspects of care in the households of migrants. However, social reproduction and the care work that it entails vary in migrant households. This article examines the relationship of migrancy to class and social reproduction. It challenges several popular notions, such as that migrant ho...
This article argues that African working class households are the sites of a crisis of social reproduction in contemporary South Africa. Through a gendered analysis of five townships in Emnambithi the article demonstrates that African working class women are the shock absorbers of this crisis. While feminist scholars point to a growing crisis of so...
The life of Maria Dlamini, a contract cleaner at the University of the Witwatersrand, is used to explore continuities and discontinuities between the apartheid labour regime and the neoliberal, post-apartheid order in South Africa. As South African institutions have adopted neoliberal market strategies, the growth in the contracting-out of cleaning...
