Скачать или смотреть NBK Night School Session 6—Gender & Capitalism w/ Liza Featherstone

Facilitator: Liza Featherstone (Jacobin, The Nation)

Despite promises that free markets and meritocracy would lead to more general freedoms, gender inequality persists under capitalism. Even as an official form of feminism has gained power in the liberal establishment, working women are left behind. As socialist-feminist Nancy Fraser has put it, “Leaning In” has often meant “Leaning On” working women of color.

In this session, we will ask: What actually is the relationship of gender to capitalism? Is gender hierarchy in its current form a result of capitalism, or does it follow its own logic? What is the difference between liberal feminism and socialist feminism? What would it take to create a society in which sexism no longer exists?

READINGS
(See syllabus for links https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V...)

Barbara Ehrenreich, “What is Socialist Feminism?”

Jennifer Doyle, “The Feminist Vision of Friedrich Engels”

Liza Featherstone, “The Pandemic Is a Family Emergency,” The New Republic, May 7, 2020

VIDEO: “Feminist Scholar Barbara Smith on Identity Politics & Why She Supports Bernie Sanders for President”

Angela Davis, “The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective” from Women, Race, and Class

VIDEO: Jodi Dean, “Kollontai and Revolution: There is no Socialism without Feminism”

​​FURTHER RESOURCES
​​VIDEO: “You Can't Rely on the NGOs to Save Abortion Rights”
AUDIO: Hear the Bern, Ep. 43: Yours in Struggle (w/ Barbara Smith)
The Combahee River Collective Statement
Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue
Friedrich Engels, Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State, chapter 2
Sarah Leonard and Rebecca Rojer, “Housekeepers Versus Harvard: Feminism for the Age of Trump” (2017)
“Materialism and Feminism: An Interview with Johanna Brenner” (2017)
Susan Watkins, “Which Feminisms?” New Left Review, 2018
Johanna Brenner and Maria Ramas, “Rethinking Women’s Oppression”
Tamara Kamatovic, “How Vienna’s Socialist City Hall Put Children at the Heart of the Welfare State”
Martha Gimenez, “Capitalism and the Oppression of Women: Marx Revisited”

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The North Brooklyn Night School aims to connect the history and theory of socialist struggle with the work of present day activists and organizers. It offers a rigorous but accessible curriculum for working adults to develop their political understanding and strategy. See our full syllabus here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V....

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