21st Century Socialist-Feminism

Brenner, Johanna

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“…But not all formulations of socialist feminism have an ecological dimension (Brenner, 2014;Holmstrom, 2002). This underlines the complexities of the position of one informant that "we need to build an eco-socialist feminist movement in South Africa to reclaim the practice of feminism, not the label" (Key informant interview, Johannesburg 2014).…”

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A feminist response to the food crisis in contemporary South Africa

Cock¹

2016

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A feminist response to the food crisis in contemporary South Africa

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“…Class is not mentioned in her understanding of intersectionality; her definition of feminism “is the belief in gender and racial equality” (not mentioning class) “and in the importance of lives of all women, Indigenous people, racialized individuals, and other socially marginalized” (not exploited) “groups” (10). She says that Euro-Western feminism focuses on “the problems that confront settler, middle-class women” (79), obscuring the extensive political organizing and analytical writing by and about working-class women (see, for example, Cobble 2005; Brenner 2014; Rowbotham 2014). Given that work is the predominant daily activity for most women and that unionized women are the largest collective of organized women working for improvements to women's lives, why is care, and primarily the ethics of care, the only reference to work in this study?…”

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Cautiously Hopeful: Metafeminist Practices in Canada. Marie Carrière. Montreal, Que., and Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queens University Press, 2020 (ISBN 978-0-2280-0422-6)

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2023

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In Cautiously Hopeful: Metafeminist Practices in Canada, Marie Carrière introduces herself and her project: "I am a feminist setting out to decipher and depict the internal and external plurality of feminism, as well as the sometimes messy, paradoxic metadimension and metaconciousness of feminism today and its fundamental intervention in our neoliberal, late capitalist, unevenly globalized, patriarchal, colonial and androcentric times" (15). For Carrière, feminism "is the belief in gender and racial equality and in the importance of lives of all women, Indigenous people, racialized individuals, and other socially marginalized groups" (10). Carrière's project weaves together four threads: a review of major debates and currents in metafeminist writings and practices in Canada; an in-depth examination of some of the key literary writings; an experimental writing style that both challenges academic conventions and makes more viable engagements with contemporary literary works; and her cautiously hopeful insights into feminist possibilities for more equitable social change. As a professor of English and director of the Canadian Literature Centre at the University of Alberta, Carrière offers insights into the ways in which feminism is articulated in literature and the ways in which such literature offers hope for contemporary feminism.The book is organized around a review of what Carrière considers the major debates and currents in metafeminist writings and practices in Canada. Metafeminism is a reading practice of feminist writings that draws on and builds on earlier works and offers new insights and visions for current and future practices. She starts by insisting that "if a sort of internal messiness has always characterized feminism, then metafeminism provides a critical understanding and terminology, and transforms it into an always intersectional praxis that remains self-aware of its past, present, and possible futures" (6). She identifies the core elements of feminist thought today: "Intersectionality (the analysis of race, gender, and other overlapping elements of social oppression), alliances, affect theory, ethics of care, and feminism's own internal differences" (6-7).Carrière's most important contribution in this text is an in-depth examination of some of the key literary writings: Anglo-Canadian, Indigenous and Quebeçois texts. It provides readers with a thoughtful evaluation of an impressive range of literary writing. It may well introduce many readers to impressive writings by authors they haven't yet read. Carrière notes that these three genres are often considered distinct; instead, this text examines their periodic engagements and their often-shared interests. In one of the most compelling aspects of this book, she shows the potential strength of bringing them into conversation with one another, while also showing the writers' engagements with

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“…Additionally, they worked well for smaller scale and decentralized initiatives. For many who elaborated socialist feminist politics, their successes gave rise to a confidence that the movement's achievements were owed to these distinctive politics, and that socialist feminism and the women's movement would grow and expand together (Brenner 2014a(Brenner , 2014bRowbotham et. al.…”

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“…American socialist feminist Johanna Brenner (2014b) argues that "rebuilding the Left will require drawing on socialist feminist traditions" (n.p). As I showed in Chapter 1, this sentiment has been echoed by other socialist feminist academics and organizers (Brenner 2014a(Brenner , 2014bRowbotham et. al.…”

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A Political Strategy for the Liberation of Women: Socialist Feminist Political Practice

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This dissertation examines socialist feminism as it developed as a political force in English-speaking parts of Canada, especially Toronto, from the 1960s-1980s. This project contributes to documenting, summarizing, and analyzing socialist feminist activity, with particular attention devoted to organizational forms and methods. The legacy of socialist feminism is remembered as a disinclination towards parties, leadership, and organization. In reviewing the history of socialist feminism, I show that this is not an accurate portrayal of the movement. Instead, there were heated debates about the best strategies for achieving the goals of the movement. Drawing on archival research, interviews and secondary sources, I look at what practices emerged from the development of socialist feminism that can inform contemporary projects for women's liberation. Socialist feminists rooted their analysis of women's oppression in relation to capitalist production and economic structures. Their political work on reproductive rights, childcare, housework, equal pay, anti-free trade, labour, and anti-war were all rooted in an understanding of how capital structured the lives of people. Throughout this dissertation, I'll show how this analysis helped strengthen the political work of the women's movement and political organizations on the Left. I also examine socialist feminism's relationship to communist and socialist organizing by women and around the woman question historically, alongside the developments in class struggle in Canada and the ideological and political divisions in the socialist Left. Reflecting on socialist feminism from our vantage-point today, I argue that a reconsideration of the role of the socialist political party is needed. A modern socialist iii left must be conscious of what tools cannot be discarded, or are indeed most critical, if it hopes to organize people in the thousands and millions required to bring about transformative, revolutionary change. There are many people involved in the writing of a dissertation, whether through feedback, guidance, encouragement, administration, and/or emotional support. My sincerest thanks to my advisor, Dr. Justin Paulson, who has been my advocate throughout this journey. I'm lucky to be one of several students who has benefitted from your wisdom, kindness, and support. None of this would have been possible without you and I am endlessly grateful. I cannot imagine a better mentor.

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21st Century Socialist-Feminism

Cited by 13 publications

References 21 publications

A feminist response to the food crisis in contemporary South Africa

A feminist response to the food crisis in contemporary South Africa

Cautiously Hopeful: Metafeminist Practices in Canada. Marie Carrière. Montreal, Que., and Kingston, Ont.: McGill-Queens University Press, 2020 (ISBN 978-0-2280-0422-6)

A Political Strategy for the Liberation of Women: Socialist Feminist Political Practice

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