The Feminist Subversion of the Economy: Contributions for Life Against Capital  

The Feminist Subversion of the Economy shows the urgent need to radically and democratically discuss what we mean by a dignified life and how we can organize to sustain life collectively.

In the face of unending economic crises and climate catastrophe, we must consider, what does a dignified life look like? Feminist intellectual and activist Amaia Pérez Orozco powerfully and provocatively outlines a vision for a web of life sustained collectively with care, mutualism, and in balance with our ecological world. That vision is a call to action to subvert the foundational order of racial capitalism, colonial violence, and a heteropatriarchal economy that threatens every form of life. 

The Feminist Subversion of the Economy makes the connection between the systems that promise more devastation and destruction of life in the name of profit—and rallies women, LGBTQ+ communities, and movements worldwide to center gender and social reproduction in a vision for a balanced ecology, a just economy, and a free society. 

Newly translated and updated in collaboration with Liz Mason-Deese, who has won a PEN translation award for her work on feminist economics, The Feminist Subversion of the Economy shows the urgent need to radically and democratically discuss what we mean by a dignified life and how we can organize to sustain life collectively.

Amaia Pérez Orozco has a PhD in Economics and is activist in social and feminist movements. She is a long time educator and advocate of feminist economic concepts, theory, and practice all around Spain and Latin America

Liz Mason-Deese is an editor at Viewpoint Magazine, a member of the Counter-Cartographies Collective, and a member of the translation collective Territorio de Ideas. She is a long-time translator of and participant in feminist movements in Latin America.

READING SCHEDULE

Week 1: Tuesday, February 28th | 4PM EST 5:15PM EST | Intro plus Chapter 1: The Perspective of Sustaining Life

Week 2: Tuesday, March 14th | 4PM EST 5:15PM EST | Chapter 2 and 3: Capital’s Attack on Life & The Economy is Resolved This Side of the Market (Closer to Home)

Week 3: Tuesday, March 28th | 4PM EST 5:15PM EST | Chapter 4 and 5: Critique of Growth and Production & Ecofeminist Degrowth for Buen Convivir

Session 2 Readings

Our meetings with be hybrid, both in-person at Making Worlds Cooperative Bookstore and Social Center and online via Zoom. Our aim is to study together through a guided reading of the book, discuss its many lessons and offerings, and deepen our analysis and practice of a solidarity economy and related organizing efforts in a cooperative network. We will cover two chapters (approx 60 pages) during each session.

Physical and electronic copies of the book are available from Common Notions.

Please consider supporting our ongoing fundraising for copies The Feminist Subversion of the Economy to be sent to mutual aid/study groups / feminist collectives.

Cosponsored by Philadelphia Area Cooperative Alliance.