The Dig: Feminism for the 99% with Tithi Bhattacharya
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🗓️ 6 March 2019
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
Striking women have begun to reclaim feminism as a project of working-class struggle against not only patriarchy's domination of women by men but also against capitalism's domination of the many by the few—a system that sexism serves. As Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya and Nancy Fraser write in Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, "Our answer to lean-in feminism is kick-back feminism. We have no interest in breaking the glass ceiling while leaving the vast majority to clean up the shards. Far from celebrating women CEOs who occupy corner offices, we want to get rid of CEOs and corner offices." Dan interviews Tithi Bhattacharya.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you. One that you might like is How Europe |
| 0:16.8 | underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney with a foreword by Angela Davis. |
| 0:21.7 | How Europe underdeveloped Africa is an ambitious |
| 0:25.6 | masterwork of political economy detailing the impact of slavery and |
| 0:30.0 | colonialism on the history of international capitalism. |
| 0:33.8 | In this classic book, Rodney makes the unflinching case |
| 0:37.8 | that African maldevelopment is not a natural feature |
| 0:41.5 | of geography, but a direct product of imperial extraction from the continent, |
| 0:47.2 | a practice that continues up into the present. |
| 0:50.4 | Meticulously researched, how Europe underdeveloped Africa remains a relevant study |
| 0:56.1 | for understanding the so-called great divergence between Africa and Europe just as it |
| 1:01.6 | remains a prescient resource for grasping the multiplication of global |
| 1:06.0 | inequality today. |
| 1:08.3 | In this new edition, Angela Davis offers a striking forward to the book exploring its lasting contributions |
| 1:15.7 | to a revolutionary and feminist practice of anti-imperialism. |
| 1:21.1 | How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney with a forward by Angela Davis. |
| 1:27.5 | Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm temporarily |
| 1:44.4 | broadcasting from Santiago de Chile. Happy International Women's Day. That's |
| 1:50.3 | this Friday, March 8th. I'll be joining thousands demonstrating in that's |
| 1:55.0 | this Friday, March 8th. I'll be joining thousands demonstrating in Santiago's |
| 1:56.0 | enormous women strike. |
| 1:58.0 | Yet, not long ago, feminism was popularly portrayed as Cheryl Sandberg making her case that gender equity |
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