Response to Lindsey Macdonald's 'We are All Housewives: Universal Basic Income as Wages for Housework'

What types of subjectivities and political actors are emerging around calls for UBI? Lindsey Macdonald’s article, “We Are All Housewives,” eloquently speaks to the concept of universality, while also situating socialist-feminist demands for UBI within specific activist traditions. I pose questions a...

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Main Author: Tai Neilson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cultural Studies Association 2019-05-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.25158/L8.1.9
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description What types of subjectivities and political actors are emerging around calls for UBI? Lindsey Macdonald’s article, “We Are All Housewives,” eloquently speaks to the concept of universality, while also situating socialist-feminist demands for UBI within specific activist traditions. I pose questions about the distinctions between different socialist arguments for UBI and the political groups that advocate for its implementation: first, what are the differences between autonomist and feminist proposals; and, second, how might we distinguish and evaluate organizations that are fighting for a feminist-socialist UBI?
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spelling doaj.art-5a0caabbf34341d88b0f47ba151aab742022-12-21T21:10:12ZengCultural Studies AssociationLateral2469-40532019-05-018110.25158/L8.1.9http://csalateral.org/section/universal-basic-income/response-to-macdonald-we-are-all-housewives-neilson/Response to Lindsey Macdonald's 'We are All Housewives: Universal Basic Income as Wages for Housework'Tai NeilsonWhat types of subjectivities and political actors are emerging around calls for UBI? Lindsey Macdonald’s article, “We Are All Housewives,” eloquently speaks to the concept of universality, while also situating socialist-feminist demands for UBI within specific activist traditions. I pose questions about the distinctions between different socialist arguments for UBI and the political groups that advocate for its implementation: first, what are the differences between autonomist and feminist proposals; and, second, how might we distinguish and evaluate organizations that are fighting for a feminist-socialist UBI?https://doi.org/10.25158/L8.1.9universal basic incomefeminismgendermarxist autonomism
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Response to Lindsey Macdonald's 'We are All Housewives: Universal Basic Income as Wages for Housework'
Lateral
universal basic income
feminism
gender
marxist autonomism
title Response to Lindsey Macdonald's 'We are All Housewives: Universal Basic Income as Wages for Housework'
title_full Response to Lindsey Macdonald's 'We are All Housewives: Universal Basic Income as Wages for Housework'
title_fullStr Response to Lindsey Macdonald's 'We are All Housewives: Universal Basic Income as Wages for Housework'
title_full_unstemmed Response to Lindsey Macdonald's 'We are All Housewives: Universal Basic Income as Wages for Housework'
title_short Response to Lindsey Macdonald's 'We are All Housewives: Universal Basic Income as Wages for Housework'
title_sort response to lindsey macdonald s we are all housewives universal basic income as wages for housework
topic universal basic income
feminism
gender
marxist autonomism
url https://doi.org/10.25158/L8.1.9
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