Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19 : Transformative Resistance and Social Reproduction

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910888485203321
• Autore: Satgar Vishwas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wits University Press, 2023; Johannesburg : , : Wits University Press, , 2023; ©2023
• ISBN: 9781776148301; 1776148304; 9781776148288; 1776148282; 9781776148295; 1776148290
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 pages)
• Collana: Democratic Marxisms Series
• Altri autori (Persone): NtlokotseRuth; AzeezHawzhin; BenyaAsanda; BischoffChristine; CherryJane; CockJacklyn; HargreavesSamantha; KonikInge; Mbithi-DikgolJane
• 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: Intro -- Title -- 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 -- Contributors -- Index.
• 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.