CONTENTS
Notes on contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
Khayaat Fakier, Diana Mulinari, and Nora Räthzel
Part I: Conceptualising. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
1 Standpoint theory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Cynthia Cockburn
2 Outside in the funding machine. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
3 Contradictions in Marxist feminism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Frigga Haug
4 Ecofeminism as (Marxist) sociology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Ariel Salleh
5 The ‘flat ontology’ of neoliberal feminism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
Jennifer Cotter
6 The Byzantine eunuch: pre-capitalist gender category, ‘tributary’ modal contradiction, and a
test for materialist feminism. . . . . . . . . . . .70
Jules Gleeson
7 Reading Marx against the grain: rethinking the exploitation of care work beyond profit-
seeking. . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Tine Haubner
Part II: Production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
8 Marx and social reproduction theory: three different historical
strands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Ankica Čakardić
9 The best thing I have done is to give birth; the second is to strike. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .124
Paula Mulinari
10 Women in small-scale fishing in South Africa: an ecofeminist engagement with the ‘blue
economy’. . . . . . . . . 144
Natasha Solari and Khayaat Fakierx |
11 The ‘crisis of care’ and the neoliberal restructuring of the public sector: a feminist
Polanyian analysis. . . . . . . 167
Rebecca Selberg
12 Gender regimes and women’s labour: Volvo factories in Sweden, Mexico, and South Africa.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .187
Nora Räthzel, Diana Mulinari, and Aina Tollefsen
Part III: Religions and Politics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209
13 Religious resistance: a flower on the chain or a tunnel towards liberation?. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . ..211
Gabriele Dietrich
14 A Marxist-Feminist perspective: from former Yugoslavia to turbo-fascism to neoliberal
postmodern fascist Europe. . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Marina Gržinić
15 Feminism, antisemitism, and the question of Palestine/Israel. . . . . . . .249
Nira Yuval-Davis
Part IV: Solidarities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
16 Women in Brazil’s trade union movement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Patrícia Vieira Trópia
17 Argentinean feminist movements: debates from praxis. . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Ana Isabel González Montes
18 Marxist feminism for a global women’s movement against capitalism. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .296
Ligaya Lindio McGovern
19 Marxist/socialist feminist theory and practice in the USA today. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . .306
Nancy Holmstrom
20 Solidarity in troubled times: social movements in the face of climate change. . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Kathryn Russell
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350