- Trade coverage in main industry publications(Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Booklist, Library Journal, Choice)
- Review coverage in relevant outlets (In These Times, n+1, Teen Vogue, Democratic Left, Jacobin, etc)
- Online and Zoom events around the world
- We are hoping to be able to bring Amaia Pérez Orozco and Liz Mason-Deese to tour the US—participating in both large gatherings (at universities and bookstores) and small impassioned events.
- Postcard direct mailing to anchor bookstores
- Emails to Common Notions email list, relevant newsletters and listservs
- Galleys available
- Online/social media campaign including giveaways
- Promotion through the author’s social media
- Bookseller/Library mailing and promotions, including conference giveaways
- Reading group guide
- Promotion through activist newsletters and social media
The political response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the pressures on the global capitalist economies has, once again, imposed the priority of markets over life. Add to this the climate crisis and, undoubtedly, the task of sustaining life continues to be privatized, made invisible, and feminized. We must ask: what does a dignified life look like, especially one that transforms the gendered labor divisions and a racialized, exploitative feminized care economy that falls mainly on the shoulders of women—from the household to the wider effects of the capitalist economy on social reproduction.
At the same time, these questions are intimately connected with considerations of our environment. The Feminist Subversion of the Economy makes the conection between patriarchy, capitalism, and ecological crisis—and rallies women, the LGBTQ+ community, and movements worldwide to center gender and social reproduction in a vision for a just ecology and economy.
Public intellectual, academic, and activist Amaia Pérez Orozco offers a vision beyond the myths of development (unlimited growth), wealth (accumulation of capital), and work (limited to waged labor) and, at the same time, accounts for the tasks, networks, and economic subjects that, materially and daily, guarantee that life keeps going.
Newly translated and updated in collaboration with Liz Mason-Desse, who has won a PEN translation award for her work on feminist economics, The Feminist Subversion of the Economy shows the urgent need to radically and democratically discuss what we mean by a dignified life and how we can organize to sustain life collectively.
