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Selma James - Our Time Is Now: Sex, Race, Class, and Caring for People and Planet

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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 racewhatever else they do. This work goes on almost unnoticed everywhere, in every culture. It is not prioritized economically, politically, or socially, and women are discriminated against and impoverished for doing it.

This much-anticipated follow-up to her first anthology, Sex, Race, and Class, compiles several decades of Jamess work with a focus on more recent writings, including a groundbreaking analysis of two of CLR Jamess masterpieces, The Black Jacobins and Beyond a Boundary, and an account of her formative partnership with him. Her experience in the movement for Caribbean federation and independence is reflected in her introduction to Ujamaa, the socialism that Tanzanian villagers built, and in her work with Guyana, Haiti, and Venezuela.

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 colour, queer women, sex workers, women with disabilities each independent but mutually accountable (including to the mens network with whom they work) as they confront sexism, racism, deportation, rape, and other violence.

James makes the powerful argument that the struggle for climate justice can draw on all the movements people have formed to refuse exploitation and to end the capitalist hierarchy that is destroying the world.

There is one continuum between the care and protection of people and of the planet. The care income she campaigns for prioritizes both. Our time is now.

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One of the most important figures in the new way of thinking in the 1970s and 1980s was Selma James. Jamess Marx and Feminism deserves to be considered one of the great feminist contributions to Marxist thought not so much a rupture with Marxism as its necessary extension.
Monthly Review
An intellectually ambitious attempt to synthesize Marxism, feminism, and post-colonialism, not with the usual sellotaped hyphenations.
Jenny Turner, London Review of Books
Selma James is a treasure one of the key political thinkers and activists of our times.
Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship (Penguin Books, 2008)
In an era where women are encouraged to lean in to capitalism and power, Sex, Race, and Class provides a much-needed reminder that housework and care work are workand deserve to be recognized and compensated as such. James not only details womens campaigns that might otherwise be forgotten but provides a valuable blueprint for organizing towards a truly liberated society.
Victoria Law, author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press, 2012)
When Selma James speaks, I listen. When she writes, I read. She has been a crucial part of my re-education for decades. She is one of the few public intellectuals who engages with issues and people all over the world yet still remains connected to the grassroots. The writings and ideas of Selma James are as relevant now as they have ever been. Her solidarity knows no borders, her compassion excludes no sufferer.
Benjamin Zephaniah, poet, writer, lyricist, musician, and naughty boy
Building from the brilliance of Sex, Race, and Class, this work powerfully addresses the recent and present struggles of those whose labour of caring protects the future. This is about how grassroots movements can challenge power, and change the world.
Bonita Lawrence, Indigenous Studies, York University, Canada
Since A Womans Place (1952), Selma James has been giving us unique insights into the meaning of autonomy and the political potential of care work. This new anthology illuminates the significance of Jamess work for a revolutionary climate politics. A true gift from one of the most brilliant minds of our time.
Stefania Barca, author of Forces of Reproduction (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Selma James is a force of nature in the flesh and on the page. She fearlessly grapples with complex ideas, but her writing remains crystal clear and compelling. Stop what you are doing and read her now!
Maya Oppenheim, womens correspondent, the Independent, UK
Selma Jamess prose, at once theoretical and inspirational, has provided a renewed praxis to consider and work with [P]utting motherhood on the political agenda rather than women in boardrooms made her politics at once meaningful and important.
Amrita Shodhan, feministsindia.com
Selma James is a living icon. Her groundbreaking Wages for Housework Campaign informs decades of feminist thought and activism. Jamess writings are needed now more than ever.
Kristin Lawless, author of Formerly Known as Food (St. Martins Press, 2018)
An insightful and exceedingly intelligent political analyst.
Dr. Gerald Horne, author of The Dawning of the Apocalypse (Monthly Review Press, 2020)
Selma James has been living and writing about the intersections of race, class, and gender since long before the concept of intersectionality was introduced. [Her] book is inspiring because of her ability to write plainly, incisively, and accessibly about complex ideas and complicated political moments.
Paul Kivel, author of You Call This a Democracy? (Rowman & Littlefield, 2006)
Sex, Race, and Class is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand and change the world from an exploitative culture based on womens work to one where we all are valued, and that includes men.
Margaretta DArcy, Irish Republican, author and playwright, and anti-war campaigner
Clarity and commitment to Haitis revolutionary legacy. A sister after my own heart.
Danny Glover, actor and activist
Coming as I did from the working class into academia, Selma James has helped me to see how an academic can take direction from the grassroots movement and be useful to it. Her work should be in every library, on every reading list, a must-read for all of us trying to change the world!
Maggie Ronayne, National University of Ireland, Galway, and trade unionist
Selma James is the champion and philosopher of the revolutionary subject that is the housewife. Her theory and practice are one.
Qalandar Bux Memon, editor, Naked Punch Review
Its time to acknowledge Jamess pathbreaking analysis: since 1972 she has reinterpreted the capitalist economy to show that it rests on the usually invisible unwaged caring work of women.
Dr. Peggy Antrobus, feminist, author
Reminds us that liberation cannot be handed down from above. A feminism that truly matters.
Dr. Alissa Trotz, Women & Gender and Caribbean Studies, Toronto
[R]eflects in concentrated form the history of the new society struggling to be born. 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 CLR James, University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the Marcus Garvey Papers Project
In varied contexts and at many venues, including the UN, Jamess output over six decades shines with radical clarity on the economy, humanity, and society. Hers is a gift of clarifying often knotty issues in words that people can grasp.
Seth Sandronsky, Z Magazine
This book is not only an intellectual tour de force, it is the best how to manual for organizing I have ever read. The staggering breadth of Jamess writing takes your breath away practical how-to feminism from one of the outstanding thinkers of our time.
Cary Gee, Tribune
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Contents
INTRODUCTION Margaret Prescod- From Wages for Housework to a Care Income (19772020)
Houston: Equality Begins with Money (1977)
Time Off for Women (19851990)
Articles in the Media (20122020)
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