Feminisms and Marxisms: Connecting Struggles, Rethinking Limits

Call for Papers within the framework of the 10th Historical Materialism
Conference, Making the World Working Class.
7-10 November 2013, London, SOAS.

Extended Deadline: June 7

Abstracts for papers and panels should uploaded to:
http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/annual10/submit

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Our present poses enormous political and analytical challenges to those
committed to the struggle against the oppression and exploitation of
women. It demands the creation of spaces for the development of an
oppositional culture able to confront new forms of domination, rethink
its own assumptions and foster serious political responses. One year ago
Historical Materialism launched a call for papers on Feminisms and
Marxisms with the aim to provide a space for a dialogue between Feminist
and Marxist critiques of capitalism in their various articulations. The
response to the call went beyond our most optimistic expectations,
demonstrating the vitality and wealth of new research inspired by
Marxist-Feminist approaches. This call aims to build on last year’s
discussions, giving voice to a new generation of anti-capitalist
feminists and continuing a collective reflection about how Feminisms and
Marxisms can together contribute to criticising and transforming the
present. At this year’s conference, we aim to think beyond the issue of
the compatibilities or tensions between Feminism and Marxism as separate
traditions, and explore the way in which they provide the tools to
intervene in contemporary debates about labour, oppression and power. We
also hope to foster new approaches to old debates, from social
reproduction to patriarchy, and advance the understanding of the
historic limits and contemporary potentials of Marxist-Feminist
theorisations of capitalism.

We welcome papers that address (but are not confined to) the following
themes:

Marxist-Feminism in the 21st century
Social Reproduction Feminism and Intersectionality Theory
The Political Economy of Sex Work and Sex Workers’ Struggles
Class/Gender Intersections: Masculinities, LGBTQ, Queer Studies and
Trans Politics.
Homophobia and Heteronormativity
Gendered Labour Exploitation
Feminist and Marxist critiques of Racism and Islamophobia
Marxist Feminism and Materialist Feminism
Securitization and Carceral Detention
Theories of Sexuality, Bodies, Embodiment
Feminisms, Marxisms and Art Theory
Gender, International Migration and the Political Economy of Care
Feminist-Marxist Critique of Sexual Violence
Diaspora, Indigeneity, and Solidarity in Marxisms and Feminisms
Inclusive Theories of Class and Resistance
Marxist-Feminist critiques of historical and 21st-century fascism
Feminism and Autonomist Marxism: Understanding the legacy
Marxism and Feminist economics

We welcome and encourage people to submit panel proposals. When you do
so, please send an abstract of the general theme of the panel together
with the abstracts of the individual papers in the panel. For individual
paper proposals, it is helpful, although it is not necessary, to
indicate the theme (above) to which your paper could contribute. This
will help us to compose the panels.