A Solidarity Campaign for MUTUAL AID AND FEMINIST SUBVERSION OF THE ECONOMY
The Feminist Subversion of the Economy makes the connection between the daily practices of politicized care, everyday organizing in our homes, schools, neighborhoods, and other workplaces as coordinated sites of subversion and resistance to capital’s power over all of us. We want to rally behind and support the power of women, LGBTQ+ communities, and movements worldwide that center gender and social reproduction in their ongoing vision for a balanced ecology, a just economy, and a free society.
A feminist subversion of the economy comes from a thousand different places in our society—the work is to analyze and study the interconnections between them.
This is how we undermine and overthrow political and economic systems that promise more devastation and destruction of life in the name of profit.
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THE FEMINIST SUBVERSION OF THE ECONOMY: CONTRIBUTIONS FOR LIFE AGAINST CAPITAL
Amaia Pérez Orozco, Translated by Liz Mason-Deese
“The Feminist Subversion of the Economy fires a thousand shots at the deadly, destructive, and exploitative economy at the heart of capitalist growth. These shots come from many perspectives interwoven in this carefully researched and passionately argued feminist text—that is, the many perspectives of ordinary people who constitute the labor necessary to reproduce this world and better worlds still; those silenced, exploited, discarded by a global capitalist system that equally disavows and destroys our rich but imperiled ecological world; and those whose organized power everywhere constitutes the forces that can overthrow the conditions of its imprisonment, and that of our planet.
Amaia Pérez Orozco reminds us that we all have contributions to make for a shared life of dignity and autonomy in balance with our other-than-human world; contributions that demand we organize against capital, colonial violence, climate catastrophe, racism, and sexism. The feminist and ecological analysis, the militant tools and methods, the refusal of the lies and myths that prop up a crisis-making world order, and the pluralist vision of a life worth living found in this book warrant collective study and coordinated action.” —Saru Jayaraman, lawyer, activist, and author of One Fair Wage: Ending Subminimum Pay in America
The Feminist Subversion of the Economy 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.
In the face of unending economic crises and climate catastrophe, we must consider, what does a dignified life look like? Feminist intellectual and activist Amaia Pérez Orozco powerfully and provocatively outlines a vision for a web of life sustained collectively with care, mutualism, and in balance with our ecological world. That vision is a call to action to subvert the foundational order of racial capitalism, colonial violence, and a heteropatriarchal economy that threatens every form of life.
The Feminist Subversion of the Economy makes the connection between the systems that promise more devastation and destruction of life in the name of profit—and rallies women, LGBTQ+ communities, and movements worldwide to center gender and social reproduction in a vision for a balanced ecology, a just economy, and a free society.
Newly translated and updated in collaboration with Liz Mason-Deese, who has won a PEN translation award for her work on feminist economics, The Feminist Subversion of the Economy 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.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR
Amaia Pérez Orozco has a PhD in Economics and is activist in social and feminist movements. She is a long time educator and advocate of feminist economic concepts, theory, and practice all around Spain and Latin America
Liz Mason-Deese is an editor at Viewpoint Magazine, a member of the Counter-Cartographies Collective, and a member of the translation collective Territorio de Ideas. She is a long-time translator of and participant in feminist movements in Latin America.