10 Theses on Feminist Economics (or the antagonism between the strike and finance)

CAVALLERO, LUCÍA ; GAGO, VERÓNICA

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Purdue University Press

Lugar: Indiana; Año: 2020 vol. 22 p. 1 - 15

In their article, ?10 Theses on Feminist Economics (or the antagonism between the strikeand finance),? Luci Cavallero and Verónica Gago are interested in a feminist economics that is able toredefine, based on the bodies and territories in conflict, labor and exploitation, communal andfeminized modes of doing and resisting, and popular innovation in moments of crisis. They write fromthe position of having formed part of the organizing for the feminist strike that, since 2016, has drivenwhat they characterize as a massive, radical, and transnational movement. They root the theses thatthey synthesize here in that dynamic of the strike, in order to elaborate an expanded and radicalperspective on the ?economy? as a critique of political economy and to continue weaving togetherconversations and exchanges. Starting from there, they trace its connection with the logics ofexploitation and extraction that characterize capital valorization today.