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Record Nr.

UNINA9910735593703321

Titolo

Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 : Transformative Resistance and Social Reproduction / / edited by Vishwas Satgar and Ruth Ntlokotse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Johannesburg, South Africa : , : Wits University Press, , 2023

ISBN

1-77614-828-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages)

Collana

Democratic Marxism ; ; 7.

Soggetti

Feminism and racism

Racism - 21st century

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- - Religious aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Nota di contenuto

FRONT COVER -- HALF TITLE -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: INDIGENOUS EMANCIPATORY FEMINISM AND TRANSFORMATIVE RESISTANCE -- CHAPTER 1: Extractivism and crises: Rooting development alternatives in emancipatory African socialist eco-feminism -- CHAPTER 2: Jineology and the pandemic: Rojava's alternative anti-capitalist-statist model -- PART TWO: ECOLOGY AND TRANSFORMATIVE WOMEN'S POWER IN SOUTH AFRICA -- CHAPTER 3: Doing Eco-Feminism in a Time of Covid-19: Beyond the Limits of Liberal Feminism

CHAPTER 4: 'Our existence is resistance': Women challenging mining and the climate crisis in a time of Covid-19 -- CHAPTER 5: Women and food sovereignty: Tackling hunger during Covid-19 -- PART THREE: ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION, PUBLIC SERVICES AND TRANSFORMATIVE WOMEN'S POWER IN SOUTH AFRICA -- CHAPTER 6: Quiet rebels: Underground women miners and refusal as resistance -- CHAPTER 7: Class, Social Mobility and African Women in South Africa -- CHAPTER 8: Government's Covid-19 fiscal responses and the crisis of social reproduction



CHAPTER 9: Nursing and the crisis of social reproduction before and during Covid-19 -- PART FOUR: WHERE TO FOR EMANCIPATORY FEMINISM? -- CHAPTER 10: Crises, socio-ecological reproduction and intersectionality: Challenges for emancipatory feminism -- CONCLUSION: Ruth Ntlokotse and Vishwas Satgar -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- BACK COVER

Sommario/riassunto

The Covid-19 pandemic showed that a patriarchal capitalist socio-economic system is unable to address the socio-ecological reproduction need of societies. This volume foregrounds the possibilities emancipatory feminism creates by resisting neo-liberalism through grassroots and indigenous activism.