Nancy Holmstrom
Biographical Note
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).
Readership
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Modes of Production
2 Rationality
3 Freedom
4 Human Nature/Women’s Nature
Part 1 Modes of Production
1 Developing Marx’s Mode of Production Theory
2 Varieties of Marxist/Socialist Feminist Theory and Practice
1 Varieties of Socialist Feminism: One System or Two
2 What Is a ‘System?’
3 Intersectionality
4 A Framework Model—One Non-reductive System
3 Sex, Work and Capitalism
1 Introduction
2 What Is Sex Work?
3 Political/Economic Context
4 Empowerment vs. Power, Agency and Freedom
5 A ‘Work Ethic instead of a Sex Ethic?’
6 Is Sex Special?
7 What Is To Be Done?
4 Women’s Work, the Family and Capitalism
5 Democratic Socialism for a Finite World
1 ‘Democracy’
2 ‘Socialism’
3 Democracy as the END of Socialism
4 Democracy as the MEANS to Socialism
5 Why Democratic Socialism Is ECOSOCIALIST
6 Why Democratic Socialism Is FEMINIST
Part 2 Rationality
6 Rationality and Revolution
7 For a Sustainable Future: The Centrality of Public Goods
1 Rethinking Property and Rationality: From the Individual to the Collective
2 Property
3 Rationality
4 From Common Sense to Common Practice: Struggles around Public Goods
Part 3 Freedom
8 Free Will and a Marxist Concept of Natural Wants
9 Against Capitalism from a Feminist Point of View
1 Basic Definitions: ‘Capitalism’ and ‘Women’s Interests’
2 Gender interests: Strategic and Practical
3 Capitalism in Theory: Ideals and Limits
4 Capitalism in Reality
Part 4 Human Nature/Women’s Nature
10 A Marxist Theory of Women’s Nature
11 Humankind(s)
12 Alienation, Freedom and Human Nature
Bibliography
Index