The Covid-19 pandemic threw into stark relief the multi-dimensional threats created by neoliberal capitalism. Government measures to alleviate the crisis were largely inadequate, leaving women – in particular working-class women – to carry the increased burden of care work while at the same time placing themselves in direct risk as frontline workers. Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19, the seventh volume in the Democratic Marxism series, explores how many subaltern women working class, peasant and indigenous responded to challenges of increased labour precarity and additional care-work. The book critiques neoliberal feminism, which has overshadowed the experiences of feminist grassroots resistance. Instead, the academics and activists in this volume call to action a new wave feminism that is responsive to socio-ecological and economic exploitation, and the oppression of both women and the environment within the patriarchal capitalist system. Offering a diverse range of approaches to this topic, contributions range from women leading the defence of Rojava the Kurdish region of Syria, anti-capitalist ecology and building food secure pathways in communities across Africa, championing climate justice in mining-affected communities and transforming gender divisions in mining labour practices in South Africa, to contesting macro-economic policies affecting the working conditions of nurses. These practices demonstrate a feminist understanding of the current systemic crises of capitalism and patriarchal oppression. What is offered here is a focus on subaltern women s grassroots resistance that advances and enables solidarity-based political projects, deepens democracy, and builds capacities and alliances to advance new feminist alternatives.
Hawzhin Azeez & Asanda-Jonas Benya
Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 [PDF ebook]
Transformative resistance and social reproduction
Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 [PDF ebook]
Transformative resistance and social reproduction
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Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● Pagini 262 ● ISBN 9781776148288 ● Editor Ruth Ntlokotse & Vishwas Satgar ● Editura Wits University Press ● Publicat 2023 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 9109710 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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