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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 83–115.
Published: 01 September 2020
... of reproductive labor, the argument is based on an analogy between housework and artistic labor to uncover mutual mechanisms of naturalization and economic disavowal of these types of labor. The author demonstrates that, unlike the ways in which reproductive labor is devalued, the exceptionality of creative work...
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 29–48.
Published: 01 September 2014
... neoliberalism operating simultaneously as ideology and agenda and to recognize the consistent denial of reproductive labor that gives the lie to its pretensions. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 S’More Inequality
The Neoliberal Marshmallow and the
Corporate Reform of Education
Bethany Moreton...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (1 (154)): 47–70.
Published: 01 March 2023
... productive and reproductive labor to US empire. Most important, as R.S.V.P. and Zami restore context, they also generate a system of value in opposition to racial capitalism that does not depend on violence against Black women. 48. Day, “Afrofeminism,” 62 . 49. Day, “Afrofeminism,” 69, 75 –76...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 67–88.
Published: 01 March 2020
... confinement constitutes a site of neglect where women must fend for themselves to perform reproductive labor as a way to complete their sentence. This practice reveals new forms of social control and state surveillance in which judges, social workers, and penitentiaries determine which women are appropriate...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (1 (158)): 53–79.
Published: 01 March 2024
... framework,” she notes, will learn from “the traditions of women's work, Black feminist theory, domestic and reproductive labor, and all acts of preservation and conservation, formal and informal.” 21 Many informal strategies of survival are improvised on a daily basis to respond to specific historical...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (2 (115)): 49–68.
Published: 01 June 2013
... of her labor is continuously being checked by
Rufus’s counterinsurgency. And although Dana exerts a degree of power
over Rufus, she nonetheless shares his investment in Alice’s sexual and
reproductive subjection.
Dana’s failure to recognize her quest for kinship as killing renders...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 1–24.
Published: 01 December 2020
... by drawing our focus, paraphrasing Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, on “the production of the worker rather than with the work’s production.” Caring queerly thus underscores that “not all labor that keeps up everyday life is reproductive, nor is it all functionally supportive of capitalism.” Tracing...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 93–124.
Published: 01 September 2011
... logic of social cooperation, a viral value paradigm that guides social action and agency toward its own endless reproduction and expansion. This implies a struggle over the dialectic of imagination and value. I suggest that imagination is the “living” aspect of “living labor.” (3) Money is capital's...
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Social Text (2009) 27 (3 (100)): 155–157.
Published: 01 September 2009
...Rick Maxwell This essay concerns three decades of engagement with themes of labor and class in the pages of Social Text . It identifies common threads and describes dozens of variations that contributors made on these themes. The continuities include: social and cultural reproduction of class; race...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 1–16.
Published: 01 March 2020
.... All rights reserved. care social movements reproductive labor neoliberalism maintenance Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. —Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light Care has reentered the zeitgeist. In the immediate...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (1 (146)): 47–67.
Published: 01 March 2021
... of the specter of the professional that haunts academic labor today, we have been arguing for a fundamental shift in the relationship between the reproduction of labor and that of its institutional contexts. The increasingly tenuous and heterogeneous composition of university budgets resulting from a move away...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 1–34.
Published: 01 June 2024
... University Press 2024 reproductive justice abolition abortion birth undercommons Rather than romanticizing care or ignoring its demons, radical care is built on praxis. As the traditionally undervalued labor of caring becomes recognized as a key element of individual and community...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 95–102.
Published: 01 December 2019
... of my thoughts quite elegantly above, but I will take the opportunity to elaborate a little on the question of social reproduction, which has had most attention in feminist work on caring labor. I have long been fascinated by the question of logistics and social reproduction precisely because the latter...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (4 (141)): 1–21.
Published: 01 December 2019
... States and its “enemies” to the south, between private reproductive labor and public productive labor, and between academic fields like African American and Latinx studies. The Mara Salvatrucha gangs in Central America, singled out by Trump as a supreme threat to US sovereignty and security, grow...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 73–91.
Published: 01 September 2011
... of exploration, cultivation, and the extraction
of wealth — in the scarcities that are obliged as precondition and condi-
tion of a market in labor, in the criminalization and recapture of fugitive
and wayward reproduction...
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Social Text (2016) 34 (3 (128)): 1–25.
Published: 01 September 2016
... The domestic work industry has provided low-cost, migrant female labor through informalization, downgrading the tasks of reproductive labor. 12 Because of the undocumented status of many workers, employers can also use the threat of deportation to keep them captive in exploitative situations. 13 Silvia...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 77–103.
Published: 01 December 2020
... imagine themselves as autonomous individuals responsible for themselves. In this queer framework transformed by centering the labor of care, we can refuse the specious boundaries separating public from private, work from family, and productive labor from reproductive labor. Social reproduction theory...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 55–74.
Published: 01 June 2024
... reproduction of capital over all of life, a core strategy and relation in contemporary global capitalism and its new political economy of life in the digital age. Imperialism is a relation of dispossession (colonizer-colonized) intrinsic to the relation of exploitation (capital-labor). Today as much...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 35–52.
Published: 01 June 2024
... determinant of it. In other words, the role of the cultural worker is ripe for self-abolition, precisely because that role's reproduction necessitates continuous mythical rearticulation. To theorize this “decomposition” of artistic labor, one generative comparison to consider is that between immaterial...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (3): 25–46.
Published: 01 September 2019
... such as civility and superiority. 6 As Proctor notes, black feminist scholars have theorized the importance of black women’s labor by focusing explicitly on the lack of distinction among black women’s material, affective, and, I would add, reproductive labor, to the extent that “these forms of labor have...
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