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Book SynopsisIn Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction, Martha E. Giménez offers a distinctive perspective on social reproduction which posits that the relations of production determine the relations of social reproduction, and which links the effects of class exploitation and location to forms of oppression predominantly theorised in terms of identity. Grounding her analysis in Marx's theory and methodology, Giménez examines the relationship between class, reproduction and the oppression of women in different contexts such as the reproduction of labour power, domestic labour, feminisation of poverty, and reproductive technologies. Because most people, whether members of dominant or oppressed groups, are working class, she argues that the future of feminist politics is inextricably tied to class politics and the fate of capitalism.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Marxist-Feminist Theory
1 Marxism and Feminism
2 Structuralist Marxism on The Oppression of Women
3 Marxism, and Class, Gender and Race: Rethinking the Trilogy
4 Reflections on Intersectionality
5 What's Material about Materialist Feminism?
Part 2: Capitalist Social Reproduction
6 Population and Capitalism
7 Feminism, Pronatalism, and Motherhood
8 Reproduction and Procreation under Capitalism: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis
9 The Feminisation of Poverty: Myth or Reality?
10 The Dialectics of Waged and Unwaged Work: Waged Work, Domestic Labour, and Household Survival in the United States
11 Loving Alienation: The Contradictions of Domestic Work
12 Self-Sourcing: How Corporations get us to Work Without Pay
13 From Social Reproduction to Capitalist Social Reproduction
Part 3: Whither Feminism?
14 Connecting Marx and Feminism in the Era of Globalisation: A Preliminary Investigation
15 Global Capitalism and Women: From Feminist Politics to Working-Class Women's Politics
16 Capitalism and the Oppression of Women: Marx Revisited
Bibliography
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