Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (Mapping Soc
This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality, all of which are central to understanding the relationship between economic exploitation and social oppression. In this book, leading writers such as Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, David McNally and Susan Ferguson reveal the ways in which daily and generational reproductive labour, found in households, schools, hospitals and prisons, also sustains the drive for accumulation. Presenting a more sophisticated alternative to intersectionality, these essays provide ideas which have important strategic implications for anti-capitalists, anti-racists and feminists attempting to find a path through the seemingly ever more complex world we live in.
Review
'This book is required reading for anyone interested in understanding the world in order to change it. Theoretically robust and empirically grounded chapters demonstrate the enduring value of a Marxist feminist approach... A welcome collection!' --Rosemary Hennessy, L.H. Favrot Professor of Humanities and Professor of English, Rice University, and author of Profit and Pleasure: Sexual Identities in Late Capitalism
About the Author
Tithi Bhattacharya is a Professor of South Asian History at Purdue University and the author of The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (Oxford University Press, 2005). She is also a long-time activist for Palestinian justice and is on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review. Besides her academic scholarship, her writing has appeared in Electronic Intifada, Salon.com, Huffington Post, New Left Review, Mondoweiss, Jacobin, Jadaliyya and other publications.
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Social Reproduction Theory
Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression
By Tithi Bhattacharya
Pluto Press
Copyright © 2017 Tithi Bhattacharya
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ISBN: 978-0-7453-9988-1Contents
Acknowledgements, viii,
Foreword by Lise Vogel, x,
1. Introduction: Mapping Social Reproduction Theory Tithi Bhattacharya, 1,
2. Crisis of Care? On the Social-Reproductive Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism Nancy Fraser, 21,
3. Without Reserves Salar Mohandesi and Emma Teitelman, 37,
4. How Not to Skip Class: Social Reproduction of Labor and the Global Working Class Tithi Bhattacharya, 68,
5. Intersections and Dialectics: Critical Reconstructions in Social Reproduction Theory David McNally, 94,
6. Children, Childhood and Capitalism: A Social Reproduction Perspective Susan Ferguson, 112,
7. Mostly Work, Little Play: Social Reproduction, Migration, and Paid Domestic Work in Montreal Carmen Teeple Hopkins, 131,
8. Pensions and Social Reproduction Serap Saritas Oran, 148,
9. Body Politics: The Social Reproduction of Sexualities Alan Sears, 171,
10. From Social Reproduction Feminism to the Women's Strike Cinzia Arruzza, 192,
Notes, 197,
Index, 241,