Sex, Race, and Class―The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings, 1952–2011 (Common Notions) - Softcover

James, Selma

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604864540 ISBN 13: 9781604864540

Publisher: PM Press, 2012

Synopsis

Branching off Marx’s theories of class struggle, this impressive collection of essays on workers’ rights as they pertains to women’s rights aims to educate and inform those interested in radical feminist labor theory. Arguing that class struggle manifests itself as the conflict between the reproduction and survival of the human race, the general theme of the collected essays leans left and warns of market exploitation, war, and ecological disaster. Spanning nearly six decades and compiling essays that have appeared in anthologies or are selections from Selma James' books—some printed here for the first time—these selections preach equality in wages for men and women alike, especially in nontraditional work environments.

About this title

About the Author:

Selma James is the founder of the International Wages for Housework Campaign and helped launch the Global Women’s Strike. She is the author of numerous publications, including The Power of Women and the Subversion of Community, Strangers and Sisters, and Wageless of the World. Marcus Rediker is a professor of Atlantic history at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, The Many-Headed Hydra, and Villains of All Nations. He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Nina López is an author and joint coordinator of the Global Women’s Strike. She is the coauthor of The Milk of Human Kindness.

Review:

"It's time to acknowledge James’s path-breaking analysis: from 1972 she re-interpreted the capitalist economy to show that it rests on the usually invisible unwaged caring work of women." —Dr. Peggy Antrobus, feminist, author of The Global Women’s Movement: Origins, Issues and Strategies

“The publication of these essays reflects in concentrated form the history of the new society struggling to be born. Their appearance today could not be timelier. As the fruit of the collective experience of the last half-century, they will help to acquaint a whole new generation with not only what it means to think theoretically, but, more importantly, the requirement of organization as the means of testing those ideas. In this respect, Selma James embodies in these essays the spirit of the revolutionary tradition at its most relevant.” —Dr. Robert A. Hill, Literary Executor of the estate of C.L.R. James, University of California, Los Angeles, Director, Marcus Garvey Papers Project

“In this incisive and necessary collection of essays and talks spanning over five decades, Selma James reminds us that liberation cannot be handed down from above. This is a feminism that truly matters.” —Dr. Alissa Trotz, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Director of Caribbean Studies, University of Toronto

“For clarity and commitment to Haiti’s revolutionary legacy . . . Selma is a sister after my own heart.”  —Danny Glover, actor

“Selma James reaffirms what has been evident for some time: she is—quite simply—not only one of the most outstanding feminist thinkers of her generation but, as well, an insightful and exceedingly intelligent political analyst.”  —Dr. Gerald Horne, John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies, University of Houston

"We should take this as a challenge to delve deeper into such campaigns and movements and bring these histories into our present-day organizing for a truly liberated society." —www.NewClearVision.com

"Stimulating writing on 60 years of practice and thought on how to build a better world for human beings. Hers is a gift of clarifying knotty issues which sprout from the troubling divisions that alienate us from each other, our work and ourselves, in words that people can grasp." —Z Magazine (May 2012)

About this edition

• Publisher: PM Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1604864540
• ISBN 13: 9781604864540
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300