Marx, women and capitalist social reproduction : : Marxist-feminist essays

• Superior document: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 169
• Author: Martha E. Giménez
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden,, Boston: : Brill,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series 169.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (412 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter --; Copyright Page /; Dedication /; Acknowledgements /; Notes on Essays /; Introduction /; Marxist-Feminist Theory /; Marxism and Feminism /; Structuralist Marxism on the Oppression of Women /; Marxism and Class, Gender and Race: Rethinking the Trilogy /; Reflections on Intersectionality /; What’s Material about Materialist Feminism? A Marxist-Feminist Critique /; Capitalist Social Reproduction /; Population and Capitalism /; Feminism, Pronatalism, and Motherhood /; Reproduction and Procreation under Capitalism: a Marxist-Feminist Analysis /; The Feminisation of Poverty: Myth or Reality? /; The Dialectics of Waged and Unwaged Work: Waged Work, Domestic Labour and Household Survival in the United States /; Loving Alienation: the Contradictions of Domestic Work /; Self-Sourcing: How Corporations Get Us to Work without Pay! /; From Social Reproduction to Capitalist Social Reproduction /; Whither Feminism? /; Connecting Marx and Feminism in the Era of Globalisation: a Preliminary Investigation /; Global Capitalism and Women: from Feminist Politics to Working-Class Women’s Politics /; Capitalism and the Oppression of Women: Marx Revisited /; Back Matter --; Bibliography /; Index /
• ISBN: 9004291563
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

In Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction , Martha E. Gimenez offers a distinctive perspective on social reproduction which posits that the relations of production determine the relations of social reproduction, and links the effects of class exploitation and location to forms of oppression predominantly theorised in terms of identity. Grounding her analysis on Marx’s theory and methodology, Gimenez 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 women and men, 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.