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Video: Nancy Fraser — Marx and Feminism

"I think the days of pitting feminism against socialism or Marxism are over," says Nancy Fraser in a new short video.

Verso Books30 April 2018

"I think the days of pitting feminism against socialism or Marxism are over," says Nancy Fraser in a new short video produced by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung.

Noted scholar Nancy Fraser joined us for a wide-ranging interview covering Marx' and Engels' view of social reproduction, the tension between class, gender, and race, and the need for a "Feminism for the 99%"

Watch the full video below.

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Fortunes of Feminism

by Nancy Fraser

Second Wave feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements. But feminism’s subsequent immersion in identity politics coincided with a dec...

Redistribution or Recognition?

by Nancy Fraser and Axel Honneth

Translated by Joel Golb, James Ingram and Christiane Wilke

“Recognition” has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to “redistribution” remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two phil...

Adding Insult to Injury

by Nancy Fraser

Contributions by Elizabeth Anderson, Judith Butler, Leonard Feldman, Rainer Forst, Joseph Heath, Nikolas Kompridis, Anne Phillips, Ingrid Robeyns, Richard Rorty, Iris Marion Young and Christopher Zurn

Edited by Kevin Olson

The collapse of communism, the rise of identity politics, and struggles over global governance have combined to create new challenges for the Left: How to do justice to legitimate claims for multic...

Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo

Edited by Verso Books US

The powerful wave of rage fueling #MeToo has finally refocused public attention on sexual harassment and sexual violence and starkly posed questions of power, of feminism, and of politics. How do w...

Women's Oppression Today

by Michèle Barrett

Foreword by Kathi Weeks

Women’s Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the “family-household system” operate in relation to contemporary capitalism...

Close to Home

by Christine Delphy

Foreword by Rachel Hills

Translated by Diana Leonard

Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women’s liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whet...

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