Our time is now : sex, race, class, and caring for people and planet
(Book)
Author
Published
Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2021].
ISBN
9781629638386, 1629638382
Physical Desc
xvii 229 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Status
Somerville - Adult
305.42 JA
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305.42 JA
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Published
Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2021].
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
9781629638386, 1629638382
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
For over sixty years, Selma James has been organizing from the perspective of unwaged women who, with their biological and caring work, reproduce the whole human race--along with whatever other labor they are performing. This work goes on almost unnoticed everywhere on the planet and in every culture. When this work is not economically prioritized, politically protected, or socially supported there are dire consequences for the whole of humanity, beginning with women and children. This collection compiles several decades of James's work with a focus on her more recent writings, including an analysis of C.L.R. James's two masterpieces, The Black Jacobins and Beyond a Boundary, and an account of her formative partnership with him over three decades. Her experience with the Caribbean movement for independence and federation is reflected in her introduction to Ujamaa, the work of Tanzanians to bypass capitalism, and much more. Steeped in the tradition of Marx urging the need for a "practical movement," James recounts the unusual history of how autonomous organizations formed within the International Wages for Housework Campaign and reshaped it. Women of color, queer women, sex workers, women with disabilities ... each independent but mutually accountable (including to the men's network with whom they work) as they confront sexism, racism, deportation, rape, and other violence. James makes the argument that the climate justice movement can draw on all the movements' people have formed to refuse their particular exploitation, to end the capitalist hierarchy that is destroying the world. --From publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
James, S. (2021). Our time is now: sex, race, class, and caring for people and planet . PM Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)James, Selma. 2021. Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet. PM Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)James, Selma. Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet PM Press, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)James, Selma. Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet PM Press, 2021.
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