Women and Work: Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction by Susan Ferguson (Eng

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An analysis of the divergent strands of feminism, as the fight for women's emancipation takes centre stage.

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Feminism is once again on the political agenda. Across the world women are taking to the streets to protest unfair working conditions, abortion laws, and sexual violence. They are demanding decent wages, better schools and free childcare. But why do some feminists choose to fight for more women CEOs, while others fight for a world without CEOs?To understand these divergent approaches, Susan Ferguson looks at the ideas that have inspired women to protest, exploring the ways in which feminists have placed work at the centre of their struggle for emancipation. Two distinct trajectories emerge: 'equality feminism' and 'social reproduction feminism'. Ferguson argues that socialists have too often embraced the 'liberal' tendencies of equality feminism, while neglecting the insights of social reproduction feminism.Engaging with feminist anti-work critiques, Ferguson proposes that women's emancipation depends upon a radical reimagining of all labour and advocates for a renewed social reproduction framework as a powerful basis for an inclusive feminist politics.

Author Biography

Susan Ferguson is Associate Professor Emerita at Wilfrid Laurier University and a Research Affiliate at the University of Houston. She is the author of Women and Work: Social Reproduction, Feminism and Labour. She serves on the editorial board of the webzine, Midnight Sun, and is a coordinating committee member of Scholars Against the War on Palestine and a member of Faculty for Palestine, Canada. She lives in Texas. 

Table of Contents

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Labour LensPart I: Three Trajectories2. The Rational-Humanist Roots of Equality Feminism3. Socialist Feminism: Two Approaches to Understanding Women's Work4. Equal Work for and against Capital5. Anti-Racist Feminism and Women's WorkPart II: Social Reproduction Feminism6. A Political Economy of 'Women's Work': Producing Patriarchal Capitalism7. Renewing Social Reproduction Feminism8. The Social Reproduction Strike: Life-Making Beyond CapitalismAfterwordNotesIndex

Review

'Susan Ferguson's attention to labour in the history of feminist thought is timely and urgent as is her attention to capital's intensified harvest from the devalued work of social reproduction. Scholars and students across disciplines will find here valuable insights into the history of feminist theory and social movement' -- Rosemary Hennessy, Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University'Susan Ferguson has been a leader in the efforts to develop social reproduction theory. In this book, she takes on the historical context for its development. Her focus on the history of 'labour' in Marxist and feminist thought brilliantly reshapes our understanding of the concept and its role in analysing our past, present, and future' -- Lise Vogel, author of 'Marxism and the Oppression of Women''A masterful analysis of three centuries of feminist deliberations on work, carefully tracing how the fault lines of social-reproduction theory emerged'   -- 'Historical Materialism'

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'Through an innovative interpretation of key historical and contemporary feminist texts, this compellingly written book offers socialist-feminist activists an excellent introduction to social reproduction theory and its political implications'

Details ISBN0745338720 Author Susan Ferguson Publisher Pluto Press Series Mapping Social Reproduction Theory Year 2019 ISBN-10 0745338720 ISBN-13 9780745338729 Format Hardcover Language English Publication Date 2019-11-20 UK Release Date 2019-11-20 Imprint Pluto Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2019-11-20 NZ Release Date 2019-11-20 Pages 192 Subtitle Feminism, Labour, and Social Reproduction Alternative 9780745338712 DEWEY 331.4 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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