Selma James

Selma James
2012
Personlig information
Født	Selma Deitch 15. august 1930 (93 år) Brooklyn, New York, USA
Nationalitet	Amerikansk
Bopæl	Trinidad (1958-1962)
Ægtefælle	C. L. R. James (1956-1980)
Barn	Sam Weinstein
Uddannelse og virke
Medlem af	International Jødisk Anti-Zionist Netværk, Johnson–Forest Tendens, English Collective of Prostitutes, Global women's strike, Wages for Housework
Beskæftigelse	Klummeskribent, journalist
Arbejdsgiver	Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (fra 1965), Global women's strike
Kendte værker	The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community
Bevægelse	Feminisme, Marxisme
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Selma James (født 15. August 1930) er er amerikansk feminist og medforfatter til et af kvindebevægelsens klassiske værker, The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community (med Mariarosa Dalla Costa)). James var desuden medstifter af den internationale Wages for Housework-kampagne og koordinator af Global Women's Strike.

Bibliografi

• A Woman's Place (1952)
• The Power of Women & the Subversion of the Community (med Mariarosa Dalla Costa; Bristol: Falling Wall Press, 1972)
• Women, the Unions and Work, or What Is Not To Be Done (1972)
• Sex, Race & Class (1974)
• The Rapist Who Pays the Rent (medforfatter, 1982)
• Marx and Feminism (1983)
• Hookers in the House of the Lord (1983)
• The Ladies and the Mammies: Jane Austen and Jean Rhys (1983)
• Strangers & Sisters: Women, Race and Immigration (red. & introduktion, 1985)
• The Global Kitchen: The Case for Counting Unwaged Work (1985, 1995)
• The Milk of Human Kindness: Defending Breastfeeding from the Global Market and the AIDS Industry (medforfatter, 2003)
• Introduktionen til Creating a Caring Economy: Nora Castañeda & the Women's Development Bank of Venezuela (2006)
• Introduktionen til The Arusha Declaration, Rediscovering Nyerere's Tanzania (2007)
• Redaktør af Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners Vs the USA af Mumia Abu-Jamal (UK edition Crossroads Books, 2011)
• Sex, Race and Class--the Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952–2011 (PM Press, 2012)

Videre læsning

• The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, Bristol: Falling Wall Press, oktober 1972 (2. udg. februar 1973, 3. udg. september 1975).
• "Waging the War Over Wages", Los Angeles Times, 7. maj 1987.
• "Labours of Love, or Maybe Just a Rip-Off", The Times, 19. februar 1992.
• "Home Truths for Feminists, How Should the Work Women do as Mothers be Rewarded?", The Guardian, 21. februar 2004.
• Jenny Turner, "As Many Pairs of Shoes as She Likes", London Review of Books, Vol. 33, Nr. 24, 15. december 2011, s. 11-15.

Se også

• Wages for Housework

Eksterne henvisninger

• Video: Sex, Race and Class — Udvidet interview med Selma James om hendes seks årtier med aktivisme, Democracy Now, April 18, 2012.
• "Rape, Race, Prostitution and the Cash Connection". Arkiveret 20. maj 2011 hos Wayback Machine Video-optagelse af en forelæsning af Selma James i San Francisco.
• "How women's work has been pushed up the US political agenda" af Selma James, The Guardian, 25. april 2012.
• "Care Work and the Power of Women: An Interview with Selma James", Viewpoint Magazine, 19. marts 2012.
• Selma James, "The Tory 'Big Society' relies on women replacing welfare", The Guardian 22. okt. 2010.
• Global Women's Strike Campaign
• Selma James, "An antidote for apathy: Venezuela's president has achieved a level of grassroots participation our politicians can only dream of", Comment, The Guardian, 13. aug. 2004.
• Selma James and Mariarosa Dalla Costa, The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community.
• Selma James, Sex, Race, and Class.
• Selma James og Wages for Housework-kampagnen
• Open Letter by British Jews on the 60th Anniversary of the founding of Israel, The Guardian, 30. april 2008.
• "Sex, Race, and Class". Arkiveret 15. maj 2010 hos Wayback Machine Lydoptagelse af forelæsning af Selma James på Dickinson College, 7. november 2007.
• Housework 'worth' £700bn BBC News, 22. april 2002
• Interview i Tribune. Arkiveret 12. november 2019 hos Wayback Machine