From the end of the miners’ strike to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the left in Britain stumbled from one nadir to the next. How they made a clean sweep of Labour’s NEC elections is a process even the participants do not yet fully understand. However, one thing is certain: this was not a theory-led revolution. The ideas of the modern left were primarily born out of a new kind of practice and some undeniable facts. Neoliberalism had failed. In the survival strategies adopted by governments it has become, as the economist William Davies writes, “literally unjustified”. Davies’ book The Limits of Neoliberalism sums up the wider thinking of the UK left about the system it is trying to replace. It identifies the coercive imposition of competition by a centralised state as the core problem, and contains the most succinct definition of neoliberalism in the English language: “the disenchantment of politics by economics”. Gender Regimes and Women's Labour: Volvo Factories in Sweden, Mexico, and South Africa - Nora Räthzel, Diana Mulinari , Aina Tollefsen

On Intersectionality: Essential Writings - Crenshaw, Kimberlé

It's now been over two decades since legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw wrote her original paper coining the term 'intersectionality' and mainstream feminism is still in the throes of a massive storm around it." The Byzantine Eunuch: Pre-capitalist Gender Category, 'Tributary' Modal Contradiction, and a Test for Materialist Feminism – Jules Gleeson Women in Small Scale Fishing in South Africa: An Ecofeminist Engagement with the 'Blue Economy' - Natasha Solari and Khayaat Fakier Kimberle Crenshaw belongs at the center of public conversationImagine the world we might have if we all took a few moments to engage her ideas."Reading Marx Against the Grain: Rethinking the Exploitation of Care Work Beyond Profit-Seeking – Tine Haubner In this comprehensive and accessible introduction to Crenshaw's work, readers will find key essays and articles that have defined the concept of intersectionality, collected together for the first time. The book includes a sweeping new introduction by Crenshaw as well as prefaces that contextualize each of the chapters. For anyone interested in movement politics and advocacy, or in racial justice and gender equity, On Intersectionality will be compulsory reading from one of the most brilliant theorists of our time. Kimberle Crenshaw belongs at the center of public conversation...Imagine the world we might have if we all took a few moments to engage her ideas."

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Pdf here (essential reading for anyone interested in issues of gender/race etc - which should be all of you) Agents for change … Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York, 2011. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images In this incisive introduction to Crenshaw’s groundbreaking work, readers will find the key essays and articles that have defined the concept of intersectionality collected together for the first time. Crenshaw explores how a holistic analysis of discrimination gives rise to a more nuanced understanding of salient social forces. This long-awaited volume examines the Central Park jogger case, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, LGBT activism, Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas, and other significant matters of public interest. In each case, her analysis challenges and exposes the intricate social dynamics among individuals and groups whose identities are increasingly layered.A major publishing event, the collected writings of the groundbreaking scholar who "first coined intersectionality as a political framework" (Salon) In this first-ever collection of Crenshaw's writing, readers will find the key essays and articles that have defined the concept of intersectionality and made Crenshaw a legal superstar. The book, which also includes a sweeping new introduction by the author, reveals the trajectory of the subject as it has evolved over the course of two decades and radically changed the face of social justice activism. For anyone interested in movement politics and advocacy, On Intersectionalityis compulsory reading from one of the most brilliant critical race theorists of our time. I read this freshman year of college and still return to this because I was that moved. Still am. This was an assigned reading, a “textbook” that I rented, but loved so much I went out and bought. 💛 It was the first book that really opened my eyes to the intricacies of systemic racism and sexism and what I can do to educate myself to do better.