215 | P a g e A Book Review: Marxism and Feminism Edited by Shahrzad Mojab, PhD. London: Zed Books, 2015.

While in today’s academia, all we hear is apolitical and ahistorical feminist lens / identity from a ‘local ’ and ‘specific ’ cultural point of view; and material modes of production and consumption are discussed assuming that the women’s emancipation will presumably occur when class hierarchy is abolished, this book—Marxism and Feminism becomes conspicuous. Marxism and Feminism rejuvenates the Marxist reader while breathing new life into the dusty lungs of feminism. Shahrzad Mojab, in her new book Marxism and Feminism, once again emerges with a new revolutionary collection of thoughts, ideas, experiences that are the pure meaning of resistance against capitalism and patriarchy by Marxist and feminist struggles in theory and praxis. Shahrzad Mojab offers solutions by raising new questions / problems to tickle the belly of the beast in which capitalism and patriarchy are so internalized that we often forget how delicately we are preoccupied with (re)producing them (i.e., living patriarchal and capitalist social relations). Shahrzad Mojab, this time, brings to the table a strong collection of weeks, months, years perhaps decades of groundbreaking discussions between her and her prominent colleagues; and by doing so, she provides a universal access to these thoughts by presenting them to th