{"product_id":"the-feminist-subversion-of-the-economy-contributions-for-life-against-capital-9781942173199","title":"The Feminist Subversion of the Economy: Contributions for Life Against Capital","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe political response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the pressures on the global capitalist economies has, once again, imposed the priority of markets over life. Add to this the climate crisis and, undoubtedly, the task of sustaining life continues to be privatized, made invisible, and feminized.\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eWe must ask: what does a dignified life look like, especially one that transforms the gendered labor divisions and a racialized, exploitative feminized care economy that falls mainly on the shoulders of women--from the household to the wider effects of the capitalist economy on social reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the same time, these questions are intimately connected with considerations of our environment. \u003cem\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e makes the conection between patriarchy, capitalism, and ecological crisis--and rallies women, the LGBTQ+ community, and movements worldwide to center gender and social reproduction in a vision for a just ecology and economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublic intellectual, academic, and activist Amaia Pérez Orozco offers a vision beyond the myths of development (unlimited growth), wealth (accumulation of capital), and work (limited to waged labor) and, at the same time, accounts for the tasks, networks, and economic subjects that, materially and daily, guarantee that life keeps going. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNewly translated and updated in collaboration with Liz Mason-Desse, who has won a PEN translation award for her work on feminist economics, \u003cem\u003eThe Feminist Subversion of the Economy\u003c\/em\u003e shows the urgent need to radically and democratically discuss what we mean by a dignified life and how we can organize to sustain life collectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePérez Orozco, Amaia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Amaia Pérez Orozco is a long time educator and advocate of feminist economic concepts, theory, and practice in Spain and Latin America. She has a PhD in Economics and is an activist in social and feminist movements. She is the author of \"Perspectivas feministas en torno a la economía. El caso de los cuidados\" (2006, CES) and, with Silvia L. Gil, \"Desigualdades a flor de piel. Cadenas globales de cuidados\" (2011, ONU-Mujeres).\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMason-Deese, Liz Mason-Deese:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Liz Mason-Deese is a feminist translator and part of the translation collective Territorio de Ideas, an editor of Viewpoint Magazine, and a longtime participant in feminist and anticapitalist movements in Argentina. She is a coeditor of Feminicide and Global Accumulation: Frontline Struggles to Resist the Violence of Patriarchy and Capitalism.","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50554255671570,"sku":"9781942173199","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_65a825b7-5152-45a2-a5c3-28e169538d92.jpg?v=1731710693","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-feminist-subversion-of-the-economy-contributions-for-life-against-capital-9781942173199","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}