The Socialist Feminist Project : A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics

Contents: Introduction. I. Sex sexuality and reproduction: 1. A question of class/Dorothy Allison. 2. Gender sexuality political economy/Micaela Di Leonardo and Roger Lancaster. 3. Premenstrual syndrome work discipline and anger/Emily Martin. 4. Human rights reproductive health and economic justice: why they are indivisible/Rosalind P. Petchesky. 5. Reclaiming Marxist feminism for a need based sexual politics/Rosemary Hennessy. II. Family Love labor and power: 6. The family is dead long live our families/Judith Stacey. 7. Stories of survival: class race and domestic violence/Janice Haaken. 8. Redefining the home/Purvi Shah. 9. My brother\'s sex was white mine brown/Cherrie Moraga. 10. Revisiting Marx and engles on the family/Stephanie Coontz. 11. On conceiving motherhood and sexuality: a feminist materialist approach/Ann Ferguson. 12. Bargaining with patriarchy/Deniz Kandiyoti. 13. The disappearing fathers under global capitalism/Temma Kaplan. III. Wage labor and struggles: 14. Women workers and capitalist scripts: ideologies of domination common interests and the politics of solidarity/Chandra Talpade Mohanty. 15. The hidden history of affirmative action: working women\'s struggles in the 1970s and the gender of class/Nancy Maclean. 16. Making fantasies real: producing women and men on the maquila shop floor/Leslie Salzinger. 17. Machos and Machetes in Guatemala\'s cane fields/Elizabeth Oglesby. 18. An international perspective on slavery in the sex industry/Jo Bindman. 19. Globalizing sex workers rights/Kamala Kempadoo. IV. Economics social welfare and public policy: 20. Still under attack: women and welfare reform/Mimi Abramovitz. 21. Toward a strategy for women\'s economic equality/Chris Tilly and Randy Albelda. 22. Public imprisonment and private violence: reflections on the hidden punishment of women/Angela Y. Davis. 23. Conceptualizing women\'s interests/Maxine Molyneux. V. Politics and Social Change: 24. Appreciating our beginnings/Sheila Rowbotham. 25. Listen up Anglo sisters/Elizabeth Martinez. 26. Capitalism and Human emancipation: race gender and Democracy/Ellen Meiksins Wood. 27. Militarizing women\'s lives/Cynthia Enloe. 28. Democratization: reflections on gendered dislocation in the public sphere/Mary E. Hawkesworth. 29. Mapping gender in African American political strategies/Leith Mullings. 30. Intersections locations and capitalist class relations: intersectionality from a Marxist perspective/Johanna Brenner. VI. Nature society and knowledge: 31. The feminist standpoint revisited/Nancy Hartsock. 32. A Marxist theory of women\'s nature/Nancy Holmstrom. 33. The ecopolitics debate and the politics of nature/Val Plumwood. 34. Women and the Third World: exploring the dangers of difference/Meera Nanda. 35. Expanding environmental justice: Asian American feminists contribution/Julie Sze. Index.

Socialist Feminist Theorizing is Flourishing Today. This collection is intended to show its strengths and resources and convey a sense of it as an ongoing project. Not every contribution to that project bears the same theoretical label but the writings collected here share a broad aim of understanding women\'s subordination in a way which integrates class and gender as well as aspects of women\'s identity such as race ethnicity and sexual orientation with the aim of liberating women.

The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and Politics brings together some of the most important recent socialist feminist writings on a wide range of topics: sex and reproduction the family wage labor social welfare and public policy the place of sex and gender in politics and the philosophical foundations of socialist feminism. Although focusing on recent writings the collection shows how these build on a history of struggle.

These Writings Demonstrate the Range, Depth and Vitality of Contemporary Socialist Feminist Debates. They also testify to the distinctive capacity of this project to address issues in a way that embraces collective experience and action while at the same time enabling each person to speak in their own personal voice. (jacket)