The Covid-19 pandemic showed that a patriarchal capitalist socio-economic system is unable to address the socio-ecological reproduction need of societies. This volume foregrounds the possibilities emancipatory feminism creates by resisting neo-liberalism through grassroots and indigenous activism.The Covid-19 pandemic threw into stark relief the multi-dimensional threats created by neoliberal capitalism. Government measures to alleviate the crisis were largely inadequate, leaving women - in particular working-class women - to carry the increased burden of care work while at the same time placing themselves in direct risk as frontline workers.Emancipatory Feminism in the Time of Covid-19, the seventh volume in the Democratic Marxism series, explores how many subaltern women - working class, peasant and indigenous -challenge hegemonic neoliberal feminism through their resistance to ordinary capitalist practices and ecological extractivism. Contributors cover women's responses in a wide range of contexts: from women leading the defence of Rojava - the Kurdish region of Syria, to approaches to anti-capitalist ecology and building food secure pathways in communities across Africa, to championing climate justice in mining affected communities and transforming gender divisions in mining labour practices in South Africa, to contesting macro-economic policies affecting the working conditions of nurses. Their practices demonstrate a feminist understanding of the current systemic crises of capitalism and patriarchal oppression. What is offered in this collection is a subaltern women's grassroots resistance focused on advancing and enabling solidarity-based political projects, deepening democracy, building capacities and alliances to advance new feminist alternatives.

AcknowledgementsAcronyms and AbbreviationsIntroduction - Vishwas Satgar and Ruth NtlokotsePART I: Indigenous Emancipatory Feminism and Transformative ResistanceChapter 1 Extractivism and Crises: Rooting Development Alternatives in Emancipatory African Socialist Eco-feminism - Samantha HargreavesChapter 2 Jineology and the Pandemic: Rojava's Alternative Anti-Capitalist-Statist Model - Hawzhin AzeezPART II: Ecology and Transformative Women's Power in South AfricaChapter 3 Doing ecofeminism in a time of Covid-19: Beyond the limits of liberal feminism - Inge KonikChapter 4 'Our Existence is Resistance': Women Challenging Mining and the Climate Crisis in a time of Covid-19 - Dineo Skosana and Jacklyn CockChapter 5 Women and Food Sovereignty: Tackling Hunger during Covid-19 - Courtney Morgan and Jane CherryPART III: Economic Transformation, Public Services and Transformative Women's Power in South AfricaChapter 6 Quiet Rebels: Underground Women Miners and Refusal as Resistance - Asanda BenyaChapter 7 Class, Social Mobility and African Women in South Africa - Jane Mbithi-DikgoleChapter 8 Government's Covid-19 Fiscal Responses and the Crisis of Social Reproduction - Sonia Phalatse and Busi SibekoChapter 9 Nursing and the Crisis of Social Reproduction - Before and During Covid-19 - Christine BischoffPART IV: Where to for Emancipatory Feminism?Chapter 10 Crises, Socio-Ecological Reproduction and Intersectionality: Challenges for Emancipatory Feminism - Vishwas SatgarConclusion: Ruth Ntlokotse and Vishwas SatgarContributorsIndex