Four decades of an intersectional perspective of feminist forces

A relation between “Women, Race and Class” and “Feminism for the 99%”

Abstract

This review elaborates a critical synthesis between Angela Davis’s book, Women, Race and Class, and Nancy Frazer, Tithi Bhattacharya and Cinzia Arruza’s book, Feminism for the 99%: a manifesto. Both one and the other defend a vital union among feminism and antiracism in the struggle against the inherent social and economic inequalities of the capitalist system, which according to the authors is the system that legitimises all forms of exploitation, perpetuating them. Rearching possibilities of integration between being a woman in multiple ways, it's possible to perceive an intersectional perspective from these readings. With almost forty years of difference between one book and the other, it reveals the contemporary character of the oppressions and the fights, especially, the interseccional dynamic of social reproduction in the capitalist system.