Women and the Politics of Class - Softcover

Brenner, Johanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583670106 ISBN 13: 9781583670101

Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S., 2000

Synopsis

"Johanna Brenner writes with a clarity of purpose that arises out of a lifetime of participation in the struggles of working-class women. A major voice on the American left."
--Mike Davis, May 2000
Is there a future for feminism? The debate over the direction and politics of the women's 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.

About this title

About the Author

Johanna Brenner, Coordinator of Women's Studies at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, has written for New Left Review, Gender & Society, and other major periodicals, and is a longtime activist for reproductive rights, welfare rights, and socialism.

Edition details

• Publisher: Monthly Review Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1583670106
• ISBN 13: 9781583670101
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248