{"product_id":"9781776148264","title":"Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19","description":"The Covid-19 pandemic threw into stark relief the multi-dimensional threats created by neoliberal capitalism. Government measures to alleviate the crisis were largely inadequate, leaving women - in particular working-class women - to carry the increased burden of care work while at the same time placing themselves in direct risk as frontline workers.\n Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19, the seventh volume in the Democratic Marxismseries, explores how many subaltern women - working class, peasant and indigenous - responded to challenges of increased labour precarity and additional care-work. The book critiques neoliberal feminism, which has overshadowed the experiences of feminist grassroots resistance. Instead, the academics and activists in this volume call to action a new wave feminism that is responsive to socio-ecological and economic exploitation, and the oppression of both women and the environment within the patriarchal capitalist system.\n Offering a diverse range of approaches to this topic, contributions range from women leading the defence of Rojava - the Kurdish region of Syria, anti-capitalist ecology and building food secure pathways in communities across Africa, championing climate justice in mining-affected communities and transforming gender divisions in mining labour practices in South Africa, to contesting macro-economic policies affecting the working conditions of nurses. These practices demonstrate a feminist understanding of the current systemic crises of capitalism and patriarchal oppression. What is offered here is a focus on subaltern women's grassroots resistance that advances and enables solidarity-based political projects, deepens democracy, and builds capacities and alliances to advance new feminist alternatives.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45359141519475,"sku":"9781776148264","price":399.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/10354843482820.jpg?v=1790085910","url":"https:\/\/www.readerswarehouse.shop\/products\/9781776148264","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}