Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 (eBook)

Transformative resistance and social reproduction

Hawzhin Azeez, Sonia Phalatse, Busi Sibeko, Dineo Skosana, Asanda-Jonas Benya, Christine Bischoff, Jane Cherry, Jacklyn Cock, Samantha Hargreaves, Inge Konik, Jane Mbithi-Dikgol, Courtney Morgan (Autoren)

Ruth Ntlokotse, Vishwas Satgar (Herausgeber)

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2023
262 Seiten
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-828-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• ISBN-10: 1-77614-828-2 / 1776148282
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77614-828-8 / 9781776148288