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Books · May 2021
Transgender Marxism
Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O'RourkeFourteen essays ask how trans life reshapes Marxist accounts of work, transition, care, class, and social reproduction - and where this deliberately diverse anthology leaves its questions unresolved.
02Books · Aug 2004
The Revolution Question: Feminisms in El Salvador, Chile, and Cuba
Julie D. ShayneA comparative study asking what women contribute to revolutions - and what revolutionary movements, victories, defeats, and transitions subsequently do to women and feminist politics.
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Books · Jan 1996
Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba
Lois M. Smith and Alfred PadulaLois M. Smith and Alfred Padula trace how Cuba’s revolution changed women’s education, health, work and family life - and why state-backed equality did not end patriarchy or unpaid care.
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Papers · Feb 2024
From wages for housework to self-care: feminist perspectives on the care economy
Anna MoserAnna Moser places Wages for Housework and the contemporary self-care industry in one political-economic history, showing how capitalism privatizes reproduction and resells individual solutions.
02Papers · Jan 1985
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century
Donna HarawayThis influential essay reimagines feminist theory through the metaphor of the cyborg - a hybrid of machine and organism. Haraway critiques traditional boundaries between human and non-human, nature and culture, and proposes a post-gender, post-essentialist feminist politics rooted in affinity, irony, and technological embodiment.
03Papers · Jan 1984
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
Audre LordeThis influential essay critiques exclusionary practices within the feminist movement, arguing that using the tools and methods of oppressive systems to fight oppression is doomed to fail. Lorde calls for recognizing and embracing difference as a source of strength, emphasizing that true liberation requires creating entirely new frameworks rather than seeking reform within existing power structures.
04Papers · Jan 1975
Wages Against Housework
Silvia FedericiThis classic Marxist feminist text reveals the truth of housework as central to capitalist relations of production. Federici argues that by naturalizing housework as women's 'labor of love,' capitalism obtains massive amounts of unpaid labor. Demanding wages for housework is not about institutionalizing this labor but about politicizing it, exposing capitalism's exploitation of women's labor.
