Editorial: Feminist Economic Critique

Abstract

Feminist debates on the connection between patriarchy and capitalism have significantly shifted in recent years. Ten years ago we diagnosed the contradiction that, on the one hand, feminist and anti-feminist struggles and debates were intensifying, but at the same time the social theory tools used to analyse them were predominantly characterised by more culturalist or post-structuralist approaches and liberal feminisms. At the time, we criticised that the connection between gender and the capitalist mode of production was often overlooked. Today, the situation is different. It was not only in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that it became clear that the critical social inequality in the distribution of reproductive and care work must be understood as an integral part of social crisis dynamics. In this context, PROKLA 214 aims to contribute to clarifying the understanding and critique of economics within feminist thought.