Marxism and Feminism

Shahrzad Mojab is professor in the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education and is the former director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. Her areas of research and teaching include educational policy studies; gender, state, diaspora and transnationality; women, war, militarization and violence; feminism, anti-racism, colonialism and imperialism; and Marxism, feminism and revolution.

An important addition to the body of radical analysis that left feminists can use to educate ourselves about old and new theoretical, political and methodological debates on the left. It also is a signal that such debates are receiving new energy in the 21st century by new generations of left feminist intellectuals and activists dissatisfied with the academic compromises that institutionalized feminism has made, and the failure to incorporate feminist insights into Marxist-inspired theory and politics.'

• 1. Introduction: Marxism and feminism - Shahrzad MojabPart I: Class and race in Marxism and feminism2. Gender relations - Frigga Haug3. The Marx within feminism - Frigga Haug4. Building from Marx: reflections on 'race', gender and class - Himani BannerjiPart II: Marxist-feminist keywords5. Democracy - Sara Carpenter6. Financialization - Jamie Magnusson7. Ideology - Himani Bannerji8. Imperialism and primitive accumulation - Judith Whitehead9. Intersectionality - Delia D. Aguilar10. Labour-power - Helen Colley11. Nation and nationalism - Amir Hassanpour12. Patriarchy/patriarchies - Kumkum Sangari13. Reproduction - Michelle Murphy14. Revolution - Maryam Jazayeri15. Standpoint theory - Cynthia Cockburn16. Epilogue: gender after class - Teresa L. Ebert