Women and the Politics of Class

Is there a future for feminism? The debate over the direction and politics of the womens movement has been joined recently by post-feminists and anti-feminists, in addition to competing feminist perspectives. In Women and the Politics of Class, Johanna Brenner offers a distinctive view, arguing for a strategic turn in feminist politics toward coalitions centered on the interests of working-class women.Women and the Politics of Class engages many crucial contemporary feminist issues -- abortion, reproductive technology, comparable worth, the impoverishment of women, the crisis in care-giving, and the shredding of the social safety net through welfare reform and budget cuts. These problems, Brenner argues, must be set in the political and economic context of a state and society dominated by the imperatives of capital accumulation.Drawing on historical explorations of the labor movement and working-class politics, Brenner provides a fresh materialist approach to one of the most important issues of feminist theory today: the intersection of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, and class.

Product details

• Authors: Johanna Brenner
• Publisher: Monthly Review Pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2000
• EAN: 9781583670095
• ISBN: 978-1-58367-009-5
• No. of pages: 330
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 237 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 591 g
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education