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From a Marxist Feminist Point of View
Essays on Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature
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Nancy Holmstrom
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2024
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This book shows the fruitfulness of approaching key philosophical and political questions from a Marxist-feminist point of view. The idea is that different modes of production like capitalism and feudalism have structures -- 'relations of production' -- which shape and limit the potentials for human emancipation in general and women’s freedom in particular. Capitalism is then understood as a framework within which other relations of oppression operate, with more or less salience in different times and places. Each of the essays takes this basic approach to key philosophical questions about freedom, rationality and human nature.
Author / Editor information
Nancy Holmstrom, Ph.D 1970, University of Michigan, Professor of Philosophy Emerita, Rutgers University-Newark. A lifelong activist, she has published numerous articles on core political-philosophical topics, edited The Socialist-Feminist Project (MR2002) and co-authored Capitalism For and Against: A Feminist Debate (Cambridge 2011).
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eBook published on:
July 15, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9789004703292
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Main content:
316
eBook ISBN:
9789004703292
Keywords for this book
Marx; Mode of production; Feminism; Exploitation; Oppression; Intersectionality; Capitalism; Gender; Labor; Sex work; Emancipation; Eco socialism; Rational; Class struggle; Socialism-from-below
Audience(s) for this book
Philosophers and political theorists, students of philosophy and political theory. Also left-leaning academic or student in any field. Libraries, academic institutes, especially left-leaning ones.
