About this Issue
This special issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online stems
from a public lecture and colloquium entitled "Toward a Vision of Sexual
and Economic Justice," organized by the Barnard Center for Research on
Women and generously funded by the Ford Foundation and the Overbrook
Foundation. The colloquium, held at Barnard College in New York City,
aimed to bring together people working on issues conventionally
understood to be about economic justice, such as poverty, structural
adjustment, welfare reform, trade agreements and so on, with those
working on reproductive and sexual justice, sex workers' rights,
combating HIV/AIDS, and gay, lesbian and transgender politics. It was
inspired by several trends, including the (long-held) insistence within
feminist circles that love and labor were interrelated; work on how the
economic and the sexual are interlinked; analysis of the ways in which
globalization is re-shaping kinship, ideologies of romance, and erotic
possibilities; and the growing sense, out of alternative globalization
movements, that another world was possible wherein previously
disconnected struggles were brought together in productive
collaboration.[1]
In addition to this issue of the journal, discussions at the
colloquium generated a report published by the Barnard Center for
Research on Women as part of their
New Feminist Solutions series.
The report (NFS4) is available online here (PDF).
This issue of the journal brings together articles exploring diverse
and interrelated topics at the crux of sexual and economic justice. We
hope that it, in turn, inspires many others to continue working at this
important intersection.
Endnote
1. For writing on all of these trends, see, for
example, Waring 1988, Barriteau 2008, Hennessy 2000, Young 2003,
D'Emilio 1983, Butler 1997, Duggan 2002, Binnie 2004, Babb 2007, Padilla
et al 2007, Wilson 2004, Jackson 2008, Oswin 2006, Briggs 2003,
Alexander 2005, Cruz-Malave and Manalasan 2002, Steyn and van Zyl 2009.
See Introduction for full reference
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