Constructing a Theory of Capitalist Patriarchy and Socialist Feminism

Through the Reproductive Lens : Labour and Struggle at the Intersection of Culture and Economy

“…The concept of alienation from species-being is not universally applicable. Arguably it relies on a humanist subject -a self-possessed, singular individual for whom the alienation generated by capitalism is a formative tragedy (Eisenstein 1979;Braidotti 2013). But for women, and all other people constituted as 'other, ' such a state of autonomy and singularity has never been attributed nor achieved either within capitalism or without.…”

Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data

“…The concept of alienation from species-being is not universally applicable. Arguably it relies on a humanist subject -a self-possessed, singular individual for whom the alienation generated by capitalism is a formative tragedy (Eisenstein 1979;. But for women, and all other people constituted as 'other, ' such a state of autonomy and singularity has never been attributed nor achieved either within capitalism or without.…”

Privatizing Social Reproduction: The Primitive Accumulation of Water in an Era of Neoliberalism

“…Second, these expanded definitions of primitive accumulation highlight the ways in which the historical and ongoing primitive accumulation of capital has particular implications for processes and geographies of social reproduction. That is, while Marx was acutely aware that the separation of producers from the means of production fundamentally transformed the ways in which the peasantry was able to meet their subsistence needs, which ultimately came to depend on access to the wage, he did not investigate the ways in which this transformation affected the sexual division of labour socially and within the household which, in The German Ideology , he describes as “natural” (Eisenstein 1999:199). While Marx realized that capitalism fundamentally depends on the biological reproduction of the working class, he did not consider the implications this would have historically for women's sovereignty over their bodies.…”