Frieda Afary is an Iranian American socialist feminist activist, translator and writer. She is a public librarian in Los Angeles, where she runs philosophy and politics classes for the community including young women activists and scholars representing Black Lives Matter, Latina, queer and labour activists.
Introduction: Rethinking Socialist Feminism to Find a Pathway Out of
Authoritarian Capitalism and Develop a Humanist Alternative
1. The Pandemic, the #MeToo Movement, and Contradictory Developments in
Gender Relations
2. Distinctive Features of Authoritarian Capitalism/Imperialism Today and
the New Challenges
of Black Lives Matter and Global Uprisings
3. Women, Reproductive Labor, and Capital Accumulation: Theories of Social
Reproduction
4. Alienated Labor and How It Relates to Gender Oppression
5. Black Feminism and Intersectionality
6. Queer Theories
7. Theorizing a Socialist Humanist and Feminist Alternative to Capitalism
8. Overcoming Domination: Reconceptualizing the Self-Other Relationship
Conclusion: Socialist Feminist Revolutionary Organizing in the Twenty-First
Century
