Marxist Feminist Theories and Struggles Today: Essential Writings on Intersectionality, Postcolonialism and Ecofeminism

by Nora Räthzel (Editor), Diana Mulinari (Editor), Khayaat Fakier (Editor)

This vital collection presents new Marxist-Feminist analyses of capitalism as a gendered, racialized social formation that shapes and is shaped by specific nature-labor relationships. Leaving behind former overtly structuralist thinking, Marxist Feminist Theories and Struggles Today interweaves strands of ecofeminism and intersectional analyses to develop an understanding of the relations of production and the production of nature through the interdependencies of gender, class, race, and colonial relations. With contributions and analyses from scholars and theorists in both the global North and South, this volume offers a truly international lens that reveals the the vitality of contemporary global Marxist-Feminist thinking, as well as its continued relevance to feminist struggles across the globe.

384 pages, Hardcover

Published February 15, 2020

About the author

Nora Räthzel is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Umeå (Sweden). Her main research areas are environmental labour studies, transnational corporations and gender and ethnic relations in the everyday. Publications include: Marxist-Feminists Theories and Struggles Today with Khayaat Fakier and Diana Mulinari (eds.); Transnational Corporations from the Standpoint of Workers with Diana Mulinari and Aina Tollefsen; rade Unions in the Green Economy. Working for the Environment (with David Uzzell, eds.).