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Synopsis
This collection brings together Selma James's most important writings: including A Woman's Place (1952), Women, the Unions and Work, or what is not to be done (1972), Sex, Race and Class (1974), Wageless of the World (1974), The Rapist Who Pays the Rent (1982 co-author), The Ladies and the Mammies-Jane Austen and Jean Rhys (1983), Marx and Feminism (1983), Hookers in the House of the Lord (1983), with extracts from Strangers & Sisters: Women, Race and Immigration (1985 Ed. and Introduction), The Global Kitchen-the Case for Counting Unwaged Work (1985 and 1995), and The Milk of Human Kindness-Defending Breastfeeding from the AIDS Industry and the Global Market (co-author, 2005).
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About the Author
Selma James is a women's rights and anti-racist campaigner and author. From 1958 to 1962 she worked with C.L.R. James in the movement for West Indian federation and independence. In 1972 she founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and in 2000 helped launch the Global Women's Strike whose strategy for change is Invest in Caring not Killing. She coined the word "unwaged" which has since entered the English language. In the 1970s she was the first spokeswoman of the English Collective of Prostitutes. She is a founding member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. She co-authored the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community which launched the "domestic labour debate."
Review
"It's time to acknowledge James’s path-breaking analysis: from 1972 she re-interpreted the capitalist economy to show that it rests on the usually invisible unwaged caring work of women." Dr. Peggy Antrobus, feminist, author of The Global Women’s Movement: Origins, Issues and Strategies
The publication of these essays reflects in concentrated form the history of the new society struggling to be born. Their appearance today could not be timelier. As the fruit of the collective experience of the last half-century, they will help to acquaint a whole new generation with not only what it means to think theoretically, but, more importantly, the requirement of organization as the means of testing those ideas. In this respect, Selma James embodies in these essays the spirit of the revolutionary tradition at its most relevant.” Dr. Robert A. Hill, Literary Executor of the estate of C.L.R. James, University of California, Los Angeles, Director, Marcus Garvey Papers Project
In this incisive and necessary collection of essays and talks spanning over five decades, Selma James reminds us that liberation cannot be handed down from above. This is a feminism that truly matters.” Dr. Alissa Trotz, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Director of Caribbean Studies, University of Toronto
Selma James reaffirms what has been evident for some time: she is quite simply not only one of the most outstanding feminist thinkers of her generation but, as well, an insightful and exceedingly intelligent political analyst.” Dr. Gerald Horne, John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies, University of Houston
For clarity and commitment to Haiti’s revolutionary legacy . . . Selma is a sister after my own heart.” Danny Glover, actor
"Stimulating writing on 60 years of practice and thought on how to build a better world for human beings. Hers is a gift of clarifying knotty issues which sprout from the troubling divisions that alienate us from each other, our work and ourselves, in words that people can grasp." —Z Magazine (May 2012)
"We should take this as a challenge to delve deeper into such campaigns and movements and bring these histories into our present-day organizing for a truly liberated society." —www.NewClearVision.com
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- PublisherMerlin Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 085036650X
- ISBN 13 9780850366501
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages256
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