Sometimes people ask us for interesting feminist labor reads. Here are some pieces we have read and discussed amongst various configurations of ourselves. We have tried to link to openly available versions unless otherwise noted.
- Vincanne Adams, Michelle Murphy, Adele Clark. 2009. “Anticipation: Technoscience, Life, Temporality.” Subjectivity
- Laura Bear, Karen Ho, Anna Tsing and Sylvia Yanagisako. 2015. “Gens: A Feminist Manifesto for the Study of Capitalism.” Cultural Anthropology.
- Ron Eglash. 2002. “Race, Sex, Nerds: From Black Geeks to Asian American Hipsters.” Social Text
- Silvia Federici. 2004. Caliban and the Witch: Women, Labor, and Primitive Accumulation. Autonomedia.
- James Ferguson. 2013. “Declarations of dependence: labor, personhood, and welfare in South Africa.” (Wiley paywall) Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
- Jane Guyer. 2007. “Prophecy and the Near Future.” American Ethnologist.
- Sandro Mezzadra & Brett Neilsson. Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor Duke University Press
- Michelle Murphy. 2006. Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers. Duke University Press.
- Michelle Murphy. 2012. Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience. Duke University Press.
- Geeta Patel. 2006. “Risky Subjects” Social Text
- Geeta Patel. 2000. “Ghostly Appearances: Time Tales Tallied Up” (Muse paywall) Social Text
- Bill Maurer “In the Matter of Marxism” in The Handbook of Material Culture (eds. Tilley et al.)
- Madhavi Sunder. 2012. From Goods to the Good Life. Yale University Press.
- Meredith Reitman. 2006. “Uncovering the White Place: Whitewashing at Work.” Social and Cultural Geography
- Edward Rhoads. 2002. “”White Labor” vs. “Coolie Labor”: The “Chinese Question” in Pennsylvania in the 1870s” (Jstor paywall) Journal of American Ethnic History
- Anna Tsing. 2015. “Salvage Accumulation, or the Structural Effects of Capitalist Generativity.” Cultural Anthropology.
- Uncertain Commons. 2013. Speculate This Duke University Press