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Books · Aug 2021

Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Capitalism, and Feminism

Silvia Federici

A theoretical cornerstone for the 'Wages for Housework' movement, Silvia Federici explores how capitalism has systematically invisibilized and exploited women's reproductive labor. This collection of essays points out the limitations of traditional Marxism and revolutionizes contemporary feminist economics.

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Books · Jan 2018

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

Virginia Eubanks

Investigating welfare, homeless housing, and child protection, Virginia Eubanks shows how automation disguises austerity as neutral efficiency and subjects poor people to continuous surveillance.

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Books · Apr 2016

Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, Mai'a Williams (Eds.)

Liberating 'motherhood' from middle-class privilege to reconstruct it as the most radical practice of social transformation. A groundbreaking anthology on love, survival, and collective liberation by women of color, queer people, the poor, and low-wage caregivers.

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Books · Jan 2007

On Black Sisters' Street

Chika Unigwe

A powerful novel by the Nigerian-born author following the lives of four African women working in Antwerp's red-light district. Driven to Europe by poverty, betrayal, and a longing for a better life, they seek to reclaim their identities and find new solidarity amidst cold realities.

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Books · Jan 1975

Woman at Point Zero

Nawal El Saadawi

A groundbreaking novel by Egyptian feminist pioneer Saadawi that exposes the violence and oppression faced by women in Arab society through the story of a woman sentenced to death.