feminisme untuk 99%: sebuah manifesto by Cinzia Arruza, Tithi Bhattacharya, & Nancy Fraser

Cinzia Arruza, Tithi Bhattacharya, & Nancy Fraser kalau ditempatkan dalam satu grup Whatsapp yg sama, isi obroloannya tentang bagaimana menyelesaikan masalah perumahan yg tidak terjangkau, upah murah, ketiadaan jaminan sosial, kebijakan yg berpihak pada modal, dan perubahan iklim; siapa bilang feminisme hanya membicarakan tentang perempuan? Apakah dengan mendorong perempuan agar lean-in dalam kekuasaan sudah cukup? Dalam Feminisme untuk 99%: Sebuah Manifesto, ketiga penulis menulis tesis-tesis yg menunjukkan bahwa Feminisme Liberal saja tidak cukup.

If this isn't what you were looking for, feel free to absolutely ignore this, but. Random assortment of theory books that don't melt one's brain to read (leftist gender stuff is like a gateway drug, get through these and you'll be snorting up Antonio Gramsci in the original italian in no time):

-Feminism for the 99%, a manifesto. (3 gender academia feminists come together to propose an anticapitalist form for the fem movement, against neoliberal feminism. casual language, original or translation, both easy to intake)

-Social Reproduction Theory, edited by tithi bhattacharya. (An academic collection of 10 essays grappling with a range of questions around social reproduction, from a marxist-feminist perspective. only in English, but I think it's comprehensible. scihub it)

-Caliban and the Witch, by Silvia Federici. (an alternative analysis for primitive accumulation, connects the witch hunts to early capitalism. Anarchofem leaning viewpoint. not overly complex language. imo, political/economical theory always easier to read in your og language, there's an italian translation)

Honourable mention: Paul Preciado's "Does the Monster Speak?" is his own transcription of a lecture about gender and transness he gave before a roomful of Freudian psychoanalysts, himself being a psychoanalyst and a trans man. This hits, it's full of lived experience, full of the feeling of otherness, the struggle of what performance is and what's real, how performance IS real etc etc. not academic theory per se, but nonfiction and political nonetheless.

Have a very good and excellent day.

AAAAA THANK YOU SO SO MUCH FOR THIS EXCELLENT LIST it's Exactly what I was looking for, I can't wait to sink my teeth into all of these and build up for the Gramsci cocaine <333 Thank you sooo so much I hope you have the most perfect day too

INTRO TO LEFTIST THEORY

So I wrote a recommended reading list awhile back, but have increasingly become aware it can be daunting. As such, I wanted to present a simplified sort of guide to leftist theory. So here’s a sequence of texts to help you get to grips with it all, rather than just a mass of recommendations. So let’s get started!

The Communist Manifesto. Just read it, comrade. It’s like fifty pages long, and intentionally simplified, so as to be accessible. Start here.

What next? You wanna expand your familiarity with Marx & Engels? How about Socialism: Utopian And Scientific? Written by Engels as a truncated, simplified form of Marx’ magnum opus Capital (which you should also read, eventually, but is a bit much to start). Want more? Check out Wage Labour And Capital, another of Marx & Engels’ shorter works which is a good, simple introduction to understanding our plight in both human and economic terms. Want something similar but not limited to the perspective of just a couple (visionary) gentlemen? The Conquest Of Bread is also short-ish and an easy intro, but this time from a less orthodox angle (anarchism!?); simultaneously a plea for tenderness and a call to arms.

So now, you’re comfortable with Marx et al, but you want something a bit more pracitically engaged with revolutionary movements? Try Quotations From Chairman Mao. There’s a reason the Black Panthers prescribed members read this little red book; rather than a single long text, the short, punchy form gives a lot of good ideas to the budding revolutionary. Want something a bit more in-depth? State And Revolution is surprisingly applicable to our present predicament; this is how we agitate, educate, and organise, regardless of how we identify. Speaking of which, want something that won’t scare people with the mere mention of Lenin or Mao? Consider Reform Or Revolution? The question is rhetorical, so why not get familiar with the rhetoric.

Okay, but maybe your interest in leftism is via a specific experience of marginalisation. These old school classics are all well and good, but what about something that really speaks to you?

Are you trans, or have you got a particular interest in gender and its politics? Read Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come, which lays the groundwork, and is still pertinent today. Want something a bit more in-depth and academic? Gender Trouble: Feminism And The Subversion Of Identity can equip you to rhetorically destroy TERF nonsense like nothing else, among other things!

Right, and what about the intersections of gender and other forms of marginalisation? Feminism For The 99 may be a good starting point! Maybe something a bit more introspective, that tackles race and identity? Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches is a digestible and inspiring collection which you can read in short bursts or all at once.

But some of this seems a bit Amero-centric, huh. If you wanna grapple with racialised imperialism more broadly, maybe delve into Discourse On Colonialism. Oh, but that seems to ignore the significance of sex and gender? Well luckily we can ask Can The Subaltern Speak? which may draw a lot of these threads together.

Yeah, but some of this postcolonial stuff seems a bit tangled up with history and international relations, so maybe a more in-depth understanding can be gleaned from Orientalism. Looking for more contemporary, less academic? Well we should all know by now Decolonization Is Not A Metaphor.

And what about the environment; isn’t capitalism largely a threat because of it’s refusal to address climate change? Yes, have a look at An Ecosocialist Manifesto.

Or do you find yourself asking Are Prisons Obsolete? Well let me tell you, you’re not alone!

The point is that this stuff is easier than you may think, and readily accessible. And yes, we’re in this together, and we’ve all got to co-educate, but it starts with you.

‘Feminism for the 99 percent embraces class struggle and the fight against institutional racism. It centers the concerns of working-class women of all stripes: whether racialized, migrant, or white; ciz, trans, or gender non-conforming; housewives or sex workers; paid by the hour, the week, the month, or not at all; unemployed or precarious; young or old. Staunchly internationalist, it is firmly opposed to inperialism and war. Feminism for the 99 percent is not only antineoliberal, but also anticapitalist’

Feminism for the 99%: a manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser

have decided that i’m old enough to start reading theory. anyways now i have Feminism For The 99%, In Defense of Witches, and the FUCKING Communist Manifesto saved to my phone for when i go to see my relatively conservative catholic family in a few days

Sorry if you've already answered this before, but do you have any beginner feminist and/or marxist recs?

Anonymous

15 Jan

No need to apologize :)

bell hooks’ Feminist Theory from Margin to Center is what introduced me to feminism and I’m thankful every day for that. It gives an overview of the second wave from a black woman’s perspective.

Feminism for the 99% is more recent. It’s a short manifesto that explains why feminism needs to be anti-capitalist. It’s not theory-heavy so it’s perfect if you haven’t read Marx.

As for beginner Marxist recs, you just gotta read Marx/Engels. The Marx Engels Reader has all of the good stuff plus little introductions that give context.

A Review of ‘Feminsm for the 99%: A Manifesto’ by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya & Nancy Fraser

Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto is a book published by Verso Books, and is essentially a manifesto for feminist rooted in socialism. As I read this book in its entirety, I found myself agreeing with most if not all of the points that were made by the authors. Throughout the manifesto, the contributing authors make it clear that the rise of capitalism is greatly responsible for enabling exploitation, oppression and discrimination. There are also other factors which play into widening the gap of inequality such as race, class, and gender. I connected with this manifesto a great deal largely because I myself cannot comprehend neo-liberal values, and yet these values were seen as the norm and/or the ideal. I remember the time when Hilary Clinton’s vow to ‘break the glass ceiling’ for women pursuing a political career gained popularity; although there have been many women who’ve praised her and portray women like her as an icon, I found myself rather intimidated and disturbed by women such as Clinton and the women that would rally behind due to the fact that there would be a pattern or commonality that I, and many other women, could see in this group of women. For starters, I and other women look nothing like these women (they’re white most of the time), and secondly these women would have access to a plethora of resources from a system which favours this type of women (i.e. they had money, wealth that many women only dream of possessing). I mention Clinton and her glass ceiling because the book references this in the statement: “We have no interest in breaking the glass ceiling while leaving the vast majority to clean up the shards.” I read this statement over and over again, because these words are the exact the words I’ve been dying to say but could never piece out during the rise of white liberal feminism. White neo-liberal feminism seemed to have become the golden standard for women’s liberation, and yet I found it quite odd how easy it was for this ideology to exclude a large population of women in the global society whilst claiming to be “universal”. The moment I was confronted with just how much white women dictated the grounds for gender development, I was an exchange student in a Scottish university studying Gender and Development. From being cut off when I tried to speak up in the class group discussions to saying and idea but from an Eastern perspective and have it be questioned shortly after that idea was repeated but used in a Western perspective and then applauded by the white girls in this class gave me much to think about when class was over and I made my way in the snow from the university grounds to my flat. I do want to mention that the professor was a white woman and she was well aware of imbalances of power especially in gender and development studies, so she was a wonderful woman and I appreciate her very, very much, her classes were the best. But it was very clear to me that the white girls who came to this class were very much trained into thinking in neo-liberal and “Caucasian” trains of thought. It’s not that I’m disturbingly shocked because of how surprised I was, if anything I wasn’t even the slightest bit surprised and this gave me clarity in really and truly having every intention in fighting for my rights and every other woman’s rights to speak their narrative and voice their story with power and confidence.

This manifesto, along with my memories and teachings as a student of international studies, has given me clarity in voicing my principles and what I believe in. Just as any twenty-something-year-old I’m still learning, but I’m also at that stage where I’m able to ground myself in my core believes and search for what truly speaks to me and that won’t be what everyone believes. I also want to mention the post-face because there was a point which I felt really hit the nail and this is on women and labour. The authors speak about labour in terms of sustenance, survival and consequence. Generally speaking, it’s implied that men pursue hard labour to have a right in taking on the role of breadwinner of the family, they strive and work-hard for glory and praise, whereas women who are committed to childcare and other labour that is associated with maintaining the household are typically seen someone who’s just doing what they’re suppose to be doing, nothing praise-worthy, they simply do labour (which is most often unpaid) out of “love”. Many aunts who are caring for more than three children come to my mind when I read this explanation of labour in the post-face; women in our society are told that it is our purpose to be a mother typically by men (and I know this because it happened to me) and I strongly disagree. A woman's purpose shouldn't be reduced to giving love and receiving basically nothing in return; we are our own person, we have dreams, desires, hopes, fears, and ambitions beyond our capacity to give love.

100000000/10! This is a book I’ll be recommending to all my fellow social justice warriors, let’s fight together and be radical together for our society! Reading this during quarantine made me all in my feelings but this is exactly why social justice matters. We all matter. After this book I made a conscious effort to read a fiction book because I’m trying to avoid entering an existential crisis in these tough times 😅 my next review will be on a fiction book that I’ve recently read, it’s a best-selling novel and has been adapted into a miniseries and here’s an emoji for the hint: 🔥 (if you guessed Little Fires Everywhere then you’re absolutely right!) Happy reading my dudes!

New from Verso, and professors Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto.

“This is a manifesto for the 99%. Those for whom increasing the minimum wage and implementing universal health and childcare would have a far greater impact on their lives that having more women CEOs. It is a manifesto that demands an end to mass incarceration and inhumane border regimes, the provision of safe and truly affordable housing, freedom for Palestine, an end to imperialist wars in the middle-east and much more.”

Capitalism generates such crises periodically—and for reasons that are not accidental. Not only does this system live by exploiting wage labor, it also free-rides on nature, public goods, and the unwaged work that reproduces human beings and communities. Driven by relentless pursuit of unlimited profit, capital expands by helping itself to all of those things without paying for their replacement (except where it is forced to do so). Primed by its very logic to degrade nature, instrumentalize public powers, and commandeer unwaged carework, capital periodically destabilizes the very conditions that it—and the rest of us—rely upon to survive. Crisis is hardwired into its DNA.

Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

No one who doesn't understand Codependence can call themselves a "feminist".

No one who doesn’t understand Codependence can call themselves a “feminist”.

Ashton Deroy writes: It may surprise you to hear but before definitively selecting Socialist Feminism over Liberal Feminism. I saw a key difference in the ideologies. One of them supports a very individualistic approach to feminism. The other (Socialist Feminism) puts family solidarity at the forefront. I am Canadian so in many ways, I grew up with a bias for Liberal Feminism. However, as I got…

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“Unaffordable housing, poverty wages, inadequate healthcare, border policing, climate change—these are not what you ordinarily hear feminists talking about. But aren’t they the biggest issues for the vast majority of women around the globe?”

- Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

Read the book review online at Inksight Magazine.

6, 20, 43 + 55!!

6. a book with a pink cover

feminism for the 99% a manifesto by cinzia arruzza

20. a book that got you out of a reading slump

hmmmmm i think the woman in the window by aj finn was the first book i read after my summer slump last year 🤔 either that or the girl on the train

43. a book that you have read more than three times

a thousand splendid suns….. truly one of my favorite books of all time

55. a book with a satisfying ending

i’ll be gone in the dark by michelle mcnamara…. reading the afterword by her husband and finding out the killer was actually caught after the books release was just…… i felt on edge the entire time i read it but the afterword made me feel at ease again

Reading “Feminism for the 99%: a manifesto” by Cinzia Arruza, Tithi Bhattacbarya, and Nancy Fraser for my university class and oh my god this should be mandatory for everyone

Omg hi! Can you suggest some feminist books written by women that you like ?

hi!! i’m sorry!! it took me ages to answer this bc i was a little bit intimidated by it — there were so many books i wanted to recommend but i also feel like i’m not well read enough to answer this. so here are my (pretty much completely arbitrary) top 5 lists, and please, anyone who reads this, add your own

fiction The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave Little Gods by Meng Jin Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum The Power by Naomi Alderman

non-fiction Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici Fortunes of Feminism by Nancy Fraser Feminism for the 99% by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser Burn It Down! Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution edited by Breanne Fahs

"We have no interest in breaking the glass ceiling while leaving the vast majority to clean up the shards. Far from celebrating women CEOs who occupy corner offices, we want to get rid of CEOs and corner offices."⁣⁣ -Arruzza, Bhattacharya and Fraser, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto⁣ As usual you can find some excerpts in the highlights #delicateflowers 🌹 (at Rome, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/B47AYbjKySM/?igshid=1ugvrgva6biwa

Books I Read in February 2020

The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark, ⭐⭐⭐

This is a fascinating and twisted book. That ending! I wish I read it in a class because I want to pick it apart. However, I don't think I enjoyed this enough to give it a higher rating.

Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto by Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Ironically inaccessible to the 99% as it’s bogged down by jargon, but provides a succinct and compelling case against liberal feminism in favor of anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist, environmentalist feminism. 

Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Beautiful art! An intriguing, sinister, emotional story! I even teared up a couple times. And there's a magic cat! 4 stars because the story ended too abruptly and I wish the magical realism aspects were explored more.

An Extraordinary Union by Alyssa Cole, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I didn't know how the dynamics between a undercover spy black heroine and white hero in a Civil War romance novel would work, but Alyssa Cole handles them very well. Elle is such a compelling heroine!

Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This cheered me up on a super rough day. What more can you ask for?