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Celebrate IWD this Saturday @1:00  with Barbara Foley, Hester Eisenstein,
and Zhongjin Li
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Reflections on  INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2022
*BARBARA FOLEY · HESTER EISENSTEIN · ZHONGJIN LI*
SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2022
1:00 P.M. ZOOM
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Join scholar-activists Barbara Foley, Hester Eisenstein, and  Zhongjin Li
for a discussion of what International Women's Day means today, and what
the challenges and opportunities are in 2022 for thinking and linking
women's oppression and women's liberation to struggles for a radically
better world. The conversation will be hosted by S&S producer *Lena Durkin*.

*Barbara Foley *is Emerita Distinguished Professor of English at Rutgers
University-Newark. Her scholarship has ranged over the fields of Marxist
literary criticism, literary radicalism, and African American literature. A
communist, feminist, and antiracist, she came of age politically in SDS
during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Long-time former president of the
Radical Caucus of the Modern Language Association and current vice
president of the Marxist journal *Science & Society*, Foley has stressed
the importance of antiracist and anti-sexist proletarian internationalism.
For two decades she served as the chair of the Combating Racism task force
of NOW-NJ.

*Hester Eisenstein *retired (with very mixed feelings!) from Queens College
in August 2020. She was a Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Gender
Studies at Queens College and the Graduate Center, The City University of
New York, from 1996. From then until 2001 she served as the Director of
Women’s Studies at Queens. She also served as the founding director of
Women’s and Gender Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center from 2015 to 2017.
Her most recent book is *Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women’s
Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World* (Taylor and Francis, 2009). Her
previous books include *Inside Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the
State* (1994), *Gender Shock: Practicing Feminism on Two Continents* (1991)
and *Contemporary Feminist Thought* (1984). She serves on the board of the
journal *Socialism and Democracy *and is a frequent contributor to the
annual Historical Materialism conference in London.

*Zhongjin Li *is an assistant professor of economics at the University of
Missouri Kansas City. Her research fields include political economy,
development economics, comparative economic systems, and East Asian
economies. She has published papers on the political economy of development
and labor in a variety of academic journals in English and in Chinese, also
writes for *Dollar & Sense*, *Jacobin* magazine, etc.  She is the coeditor
of *China on Strike *published by the Haymarket Books in 2016.

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