Anticapitalist Feminisms against the Precarization of Life

Abstract

Throughout the last decade, Brazil has been through a process of democratic backsliding and progression of neoliberal policies. Both processes lead to the precarization of life. In one hand, the far-right and their political representatives disqualify women, feminist agenda and gender studies. On the other hand, the restriction of access to public services or their privatization, which amplify unpaid tasks related to caretaking. Such context makes it urgent to establish a dialogue between materialist feminist theories that hold labour as their main axis of social interpretation. This urgency is derived from the fact that such policies specially affect women and people that are charged with reproductive activities. The current article proposes a rendezvous between the francophone materialist feminism and the Marxist theory of social reproduction with a two-fold objective: a contribution for the analysis of these processes and to help transform social reality.