NDPR Nancy Holmstrom From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View: Essays on Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature

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Nancy Holmstrom, From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View: Essays on Freedom, Rationality and Human Nature, Brill, 2024, 316 pp., $136.00 (hbk) ISBN 9789004703261.

Reviewed by Sonia Maria Pavel, Clemson University

From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View is a must-read not only for social and political thinkers but for any student of the social world interested in freedom and justice. In this far-ranging twelve-essay volume, Nancy Holmstrom brings together decades of work on the key questions of the Marxist-feminist tradition. The theoretical core of the book, and the theme of the first part, is the concept of a ‘mode of production’. In the first chapter, Holmstrom characterizes a mode of production as having “certain kinds of structures and tendencies, a certain nature” (13). This nature sets limits on what kinds of...