Martha E. Gimenez
Department of Sociology
University of Colorado, Boulder
email: martha.gimenez at colorado.edu
Ph.D. 1973 - Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
M.A. 1969 - Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
2002 Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
1983-1984 Visiting Professor, University of Kent, Canterbury,
Kent, England
1980 Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New
Hampshire (Spring Semester)
1979- Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
1973-1979 Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
1970-1973 Assistant Professor, Pitzer College, Claremont,
California
Work Without Wages. Domestic Labor and Self-Employment Under Capitalism. Jane C. Collins and Martha E. Gimenez, eds. New York: State University of New York Press, 1990.
"Loving Alienation: The Contradictions of Domestic Work," Pp. 269-282 in Lauren Langman and Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, The Evolution of Alienation. Trauma, Promise, and the Millenium. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.
"Recent Developments in Contemporary Feminist Theory", Pp. 141-156 in Berch Berberoglu, ed., An Introduction to Classical and Contemporary Social Theory. A Critical Perspective. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005.
"Latino Politics-Class Struggles: Reflections on the Future of Latino Politics." Pp. 163-180 in Rodolfo D. Torres and George Katsiaficas, eds., Latino Social Movements. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 1999. Reprint.
"The Dialectics of the Real and the Virtual: The Case of PSN." Pp. 79-104 in Joseph E Behar, ed., Mapping Cyberspace: Social Research in the Electronic Frontier. Oakdale, NY: Dowling College Press, 1997.
"Latino/'Hispanic' - Who Needs a Name? The Case Against a Standardized Terminology." Pp. 225-238 in Antonia Darder, R. Torres and Henry Gutierrez, eds., Latinos and Education: A Critical Reader. New York: Routledge, 1997. Reprint.
"The Oppression of Women: A Structuralist Marxist View." Pp. 71-82 in Rosemary Hennessy and Chris Ingraham, eds., Materialist Feminism: A reader in Class Differences and Women's Lives. New York: Routledge, 1997. Reprint.
"The Production of Divisions: Gender Struggles Under Capitalism." Pp. 256-266 in Antonio Callari, S. Cullenberg, C. Biewener, eds., Marxism in the Postmodern Age. New York, NY: The Guilford Press, 1995.
"Sociologist By Default: Reflections on Past Choices and Future Goals." Pp. 169-184 in Ann Goetting, S. Fenstermaker, eds., Individual Voices, Collective Visions: Fifty Years of Women in Sociology. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.
"The Feminization of Poverty: Myth or Reality?" Pp. 287-306 in Elizabeth Fee and Nancy Krieger, eds., Women's Health, Politics and Power. Essays on Sex/Gender, Medicine, and Public Health. Amytiville, N.Y.: Baywood Publishing Co., Inc., 1994. Reprinted and updated in Rhonda Levine, ed., Enriching the Sociological Imagination: How Radical Sociology Changed the Discipline. Brill Publishers, 2004, pp. 173-187
"Alienation and the Limits of Democracy: the Case of Argentina." Pp. 181-194 in Felix Geyer and Walter Heinz, eds., Alienation, Society, and the Individual. Continuity and Change in Theory and Research. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1992. Reprint.
"The Class Nature of Poverty in the United States: The Immiseration of the Working Class." Pp. 185-196 in Berch Berberoglu, ed., Critical Perspectives in Sociology. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 1991.
"The Dialectics of Waged and Unwaged Work: Waged Work, Domestic Labor, and Household Survival in the United States," pp. 25-45 in Jane C. Collins and Martha E. Gimenez, eds., Work Without Wages. Domestic Labor and Self-Employment Under Capitalism. New York: State University of New York Press, 1990.
"Minorities and the World-System - The Theoretical and Political Implications of the Internationalization of Minorities," in Joan Smith et al., eds., Racism, Sexism, and the World-System. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1988.
"Marxist and Non-Marxist Elements in Engels' Views on the Oppression of Women," pp. 37-56 in J. Sayers, M. Evans and N. Redclift, eds., Engels Revisited. New Feminist Essays. London: Tavistock, 1987.
"The Oppression of Women," pp. 292-324 in Ino Rossi, ed., Structural Sociology. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
"Feminism, Pronatalism, and Motherhood," pp. 288-314 in Joyce Trebilcot, ed., Mothering - Essays in Feminist Theory. Totowa, N.J.: Rowan and Allanheld, 1984. Reprint.
"Income Inequality and Capitalist Development: A Marxist Perspective," pp. 251-265 in John P. Powelson and William Loehr, eds., Economic Development, Poverty, and Income Inequality. Boulder: Westview Press, 1977 (coauthored with Thomas Mayer, Edward Greenberg, Ann Markusen, and John Newton).
"With a Little Class: A Critique of Identity Politics," in Ethnicities, Vol. 6, No. 3 (September 2006): 423-439.
"Capitalism and the Oppression of Women: Marx Revisited," in Science & Society, Vol. 69, No. 1 (January 2005): 11-32.
"Connecting Marx and Feminism in the Era of Globalization: A Preliminary Investigation," in Socialism and Democracy, Vol. 18, No. 1 (January-June, 2004): 85-106.
"The Global Fetish," in Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 29, No. 4 (November, 2002): 85-87.
"Produktion, Reproduktion und Geschlechterverhaltnisse im Kapitalismus" Das Argument. Zeitschrift fur Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 243 (Jahrgang Heft 6, 2001): 799-810.
"Die Heraufkunft der kapitalistischen Fortpflanzungsweise-Umbruche der Reproduktion im 21. Jahrhundert." Das Argument. Zeitschrift fur Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 242 (Jahrgang Heft 4/5, 2001): 657-670.
"Le Capitalisme et l'oppression des femmes: pour un retour a Marx." Actuel Marx, No. 30 (September, 2001): 61-84. (invited)
"Marxism, and Class, Gender and Race: Rethinking the Trilogy." Race, Gender & Class Vol. 8, No. 2 (2001): 23-33.
"Does Ecology Need Marx?" in Organization & Environment, Vol 13, No. 3 (September, 2000), pp. 292-304. Abridged version published in Monthly Review, Vol. 52, No. 8 (January, 2001). (invited)
"What's Material about Materialist Feminism?" Radical Philosophy, No. 101 (May/June, 2000): 19-28.(invited)
"For Structure: A Critique of Ontological Individualism," in ALETHIA, Newsletter of the International Association for Critical Realism, Vol. 2, No. 2 (October 1999): 19-25 (invited).
"Geburtencontrolle" (Birth Control), in Wolf F. Haug, ed., Historisch Kritisches Worterbuch des Marxismus, Band 4, Fabel Bis Gegenmacht. Hamburg: Argument Verlag, 1999, pp. 1298-1313.
Reprinted in Frigga Haug (Hg.): Historisch-Kritisches Worterbuch des Feminismus. Bd.1,Abtreibung bis Hexe. Hamburg. Argument-Verlag, 2003, pp. 351-373.
"Feminisierung der Armut" (Feminization of Poverty), with Anja Haelg, in Wolf F. Haug, ed., Historisch Kritisches Worterbuch des Marxismus, Band 4, Fabel Bis Gegenmacht. Hamburg: Argument Verlag, 1999, pp. 280-289.
Reprinted in Frigga Haug (Hg.): Historisch-Kritisches Worterbuch des Feminismus. Bd.1,Abtreibung bis Hexe. Hamburg. Argument-Verlag, 2003,143-156.
"Fetishized Nature --Dead-End Politics: Reflections on the Malthusian Heritage," in Organization and Behavior, Vol. 11, No. 4 (December, 1998): 461-465.
"Latino Politics-Class Struggles: Reflections on the Future of Latino Politics," in New Political Science, Vol. 20, No. 4 (1998): 475-484. Reprinted in E. Espinoza, ed., Cultural Diversity and Chicanos. Taylor & Francis, 2004.
"Considerations on Race and Wealth" (coauthored with Alice Fothergill and Glenn Muschert)," in Critical Sociology, Vol. 23, No. 2(1998): 105-116.
" Looking Back, Looking Forward: LAP in the 21st Century," in Latin American Perspectives, Vol.25, No. 6 (November, 1998): 59-61.
"The Radical Pedagogy Mystique: A View from the Trenches. Response to 'Practicing Radical Pedagogy: Balancing Ideals with Institutional Constraints,'" in Teaching Sociology, Vol. 19, No. 2 (April, 1998): 116-121.
"The Prospects for Democracy in Latin America: Lessons from the Argentine Experience," in International Journal of Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 1, 1994, pp. 27-44.
"U.S. Ethnic Politics: Implications for Latin Americans," in Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Fall, 1993): 7-17.
"Alienation and the Limits of Democracy: the Case of Argentina," in International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol. 11, Nos. 6, 7, 8, 1991, pp. 183-194.
The Mode of Reproduction in Transition: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis of the Effects of Reproductive Technologies," in Gender & Society, Vol. 5, No. 3 (September, 1991): 334-350. Reprinted in Research Library: Gender, Biology and Technology: Contraceptive Technologies (http://www.telemacus.it/agico/ContraceptiveTechnology.htm) and in the Global Reproductive Health Forum's (http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/index.html) Research.
Latino/'Hispanic': Who Needs a Name? The Case Against a Standardized Terminology," in International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 19, No. 3 (1989): (557-571).
Silence in the Classroom: Some Thoughts about Teaching in the 1980s," in Teaching Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 2 (April, 1989): 184-191.
"Beyond Activists and Resisters: Students as Future Intellectuals: A Response to Holtz and Wright,"in Teaching Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 2 (April, 1989): 197-199.
"The Feminization of Poverty: Myth or Reality?" in The Insurgent Sociologist, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Fall, 1987) pp. 5-30. Reprinted in International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 19, No. 1 (1989): 45-61. Reprinted and updated in Social Justice, Vol. 17, No. 3 (Fall 1990): 43-69. Reprinted with an introduction in Critical Sociology, Vol. 25, No. 2/3 (2000): 336-351.
"The Black Family: Vanishing or Unattainable?" in Humanity and Society, Vol. 11, No. 4 (Fall, 1987): 420-439.
"Feminism, Pronatalism, and Motherhood" in International Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 3, No. 3, (Summer, 1980): 215-240.
"Theories of Reproductive Behavior" in The Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Summer, 1979): 17-24.
"Structuralist Marxism on 'The Woman Question'" in Science and Society, Vol. XLII, No. 3 (Fall, 1978): 301-323.
"Women in Contemporary Argentina" in Latin American Perspectives, Vol. IV, No. 4 (Fall, 1977): 114-120 (under the name Ana Maria Marini).
"Population and Capitalism" in Latin American Perspectives, Vol. IV, No. 4 (Fall, 1977): 5-40.
"A 'People's War' Against Earthquakes: Lessons from the Chinese Experience with Earthquake Prediction" in Mass Emergencies 1 (1976): 323-341.
"Hegel and The State" in Kapitalistate: Working Papers on the Capitalist State, No. 4-5 (Summer, 1976): 156-185. (Coauthored with Anatole Anton, Ann Markusen, and Thomas Mayer).
"Marxism and Feminism" in Frontiers, A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Fall, 1975): 61-80.
"Befolkningsproblemet: Marx kontra Malthus" (The Population Issue: Marx vs. Malthus) in Den Ny Verden, Journal of the Institute of Development Research, Copenhagen, Denmark (December, 1973): 74-88.
Marxist-Feminist Thought Today, special issue of Science & Society. Vol. 69, No. 1 (January 2005), coedited with Lise Vogel.
The Politics of Ethnic Construction: Hispanic, Chicano, Latino?, special issue of Latin American Perspectives on U. S. Politics of Ethnic Construction. Vol. 19, No. 4 (Fall, 1992), coedited with Carlos Munoz and Fred Lopex.
Marxist Feminist Theory, Special Issue of Gender and Society, Vol. 5, No. 3 (September, 1991).
Population and Imperialism, Special Issue of Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 10, No. 4 (Fall 1977).
BOOK REVIEWS AND BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS
Snedeker,George, The Politics of Critical Theory: Language/Discourse/Society, University Press of America, 2004 in Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice, 2005.
Mayo, Marjorie, Cultures, Communities, Identities: Cultural Strategies for Participation and Empowerment. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K; New York: Palgrave, 2000, in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 31, No. 3, 2001.
Conley, Dalton, Being Black, Living in the Red. Race, Wealth and Social Policy in America. Berekely CA: University of California Press, 1999, in Critical Sociology, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2001.
"(Mis-)Reading/(Re-)Reading Marx." Book Review Essay of Andrew Gamble, David Marsh and Tony Tant, eds., Marxism and Social Science. Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1999, in Qualitative Sociology, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Spring, 2001): 145-149.
Louis Kushnick and James Jennings, eds., A New Introduction to Poverty: The Role of Race, Power and Politics. New York: New York University Press, 1999 in Science & Society, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Winter 2000-01): 520-521.
"Marxism, Human Nature, and Social Change." Book Review Essay of Sean Sayers, Marxism and Human Nature. London: Routledge, 1998, in Monthly Review, Vol. 51, No. 8 (December, 1999): 47-55.
"Revisiting the Marx-Malthus Debate," Book Review Essay of Asoka Bandarage, Women, Population and Global Crisis. London: Zed Books, 1997, in Monthly Review, Vol. 50, No. 10 (March, 1999): 46-52.
Melvin Oliver and Thomas Shapiro, Black Wealth/White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality. New York: Routledge, 1995, in Science and Society, Vol. 61, No. 4 (Winter 1997-1998); Pp. 572-575. (co-authored with Alice Fothergill and Glenn Muschert).
Harriet Fraad, Stephen Resnick, and Richard Wolff, eds., Bring it All Back Home: Class, Gender and Power in the Modern Household. London: Pluto Press, 1994, in Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice Vol.1, No.1 (Fall, 1997).
Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies. Stanford University Press, 1992, in Social Forces, Vol. 72, No. 1 (Sept. 1993): 271-272.
Peter Knapp and Alan J. Spector, Crisis and Change. Basic Questions of Marxist Sociology. Nelson-Hall Inc., 1991, in Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 62, No. 2 (Spring, 1992): 273-275.
George E. McCarthy, Marx and the Ancients. Classical Ethics, Social Justice and 19th Century Political Economy. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1990, in Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 21, No. 1 (January, 1992): 136.
Lawrence Birken, Consuming Desire: Sexual Science and the Emergence of a Culture of Abundance, 1871-1914. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1989 in The Annals, Vol. 507, (January, 1990): 167-168.
Jennie Farley, ed., Women Workers in Fifteen Countries - Essays in Honor of Alice Hanson Cook (New York: ILR Press, Cornell University, 1985), in Sex Roles, A Journal of Research, Vol. 16, Nos. 7/8 (1987): 431.
Samuel Cohen, The Process of Occupational Sex-Typing: The Feminization of Clerical Work in Great Britain (Philadelphia; Temple University Press, 1986) in Sex Roles, A Journal of Research, Vol. 15, Nos. 9/10 (1986): 559-563.
Ruth Sidel, Women and Children Last (New York: Viking, 1986), in Humanity and Society, Vol. 10, No. 4 (November, 1986): 488-492.
Heleieth B. Saffioti, Women in Class Society (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978), in Science & Society, Vol. XLVI, No. 2, (Summer, 1982): 244-246.
"Marxist Feminism," Pp. 468-470 in M. Keith Booker, ed., Encyclopedia of Literature & Politics: Censorship, Revolution, & Writing, Vol. 2: H-R. Greenwood Press, 2005.
"Marxist-Feminist Thought Today - Introduction" (with Lise Vogel), Science & Society, Vol. 69, No. 1 (January 2005): 5-10.
"Reflections on "The Feminization of Poverty: Myth or Reality," in Rhonda Levine, ed., Enriching the Sociological Imagination: How Radical Sociology Changed the Discipline. Brill Publishers, 2004, pp. 165-171.
"The Politics of Exile: Class, Power and the "Exilic," in Cultural Logic, Vol 6, 2003,
Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective. (coedited with Brian Klocke). American Sociological Association Teaching Resources publication. Washington DC.: 2002 (updated edition).
"Reflections on The Feminization of Poverty: Myth or Reality"? Critical Sociology, Vol. 25, No. 2/3 (2000): 333-335.
""Looking Backward" and not Looking Forward," in Sociological Research Online, Issue 4, No. 4, February, 2000: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/
"Marxist-Feminism/Materialist Feminism,(invited) introduction to the section on Marxist and Materialist Feminism in the Edited Journal:
Feminist Theory Website. 1998: http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/
Teaching Sociology from a Marxist Perspective. (coedited with Abigail A. Fuller). American Sociological Association Teaching Resources publication. Washington DC.: 1998.
"Latinos, Hispanics, What Next! Some Reflections on the Politics of Identity in the U.S., in LATINA, special issue of Heresies, a Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, Vol. 7, No. 3, issue 27, 1993, pp. 38-42. Reprinted in Mary Fonnow and Cathy Rokowski, Women, Culture, and Society: Readings in Women's Studies. Ginn Press, 1994. Updated and reprinted in Cultural Logic, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1998): http://eserver.org/clogic/1-2/gimenez.html and in Sincronia, an e-journal of Culture Studies, University of Guadalajara, Mexico: Winter, 1997: http://fuentes.csh.udg.mx/CUCSH/Sincronia/winter97.htm
"Introduction" (with Fred A. Lopez III and Carlos Munoz), in Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Fall, 1992): 3-6.
"The Sociologist as Foreign Visitor," p. 176 in Beth B. Hess, E.W. Markson and Peter J. Stein, Sociology (4th edition). New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1991.
"Guest Editors' Introduction" (with Norma Stolz Chinchilla), in Gender and Society, Vol. 5, No. 3 (September 1991): 286-290.
"The Political Construction of the Hispanic," pp. 66-85 in Mary Romero and Cordelia Candelaria, eds., Estudios Chicanos and the Politics of Community. Selected proceedings, National Association for Chicano Studies, 1989.
"Introduction," in Latin American Perspectives, Vol. IV, No. 4, (Fall, 1977): 2-4.
FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Understanding Marx: A Guide to His Method. Monograph in progress.
Refereed Book Chapters:
"Back to Class: Rethinking the Dialectics between Class and Identity," in Michael D. Yates, More Unequal: Aspects of Class in the United States. Monthly Review Press, 2007.
"Marx and Feminism: A Timely Alliance," in Christine Di Stefano, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Marx.\ Penn State University Press.
"Global Capitalism and Women: From Feminist Politics to Working Class Women Politics."
Refereed Encyclopedia Entries:
Gimenez, Martha E. "Class Conflict." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by William Darity, Jr. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.
Gimenez, Martha E. "Working Class." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by William Darity, Jr. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.
Gimenez, Martha E. "Social Formation." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by William Darity, Jr. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.
Gimenez, Martha E. "Middle Class." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by William Darity, Jr. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.
Gimenez, Martha E. "Surplus Labor: Marxist and Radical Economics." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by William Darity, Jr. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.
Gimenez, Martha E. "Surplus Population." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd ed., edited by William Darity, Jr. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008.
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