What Did Marx Have to Say about Cooking Dinner? Social Reproduction Theory and Labor Theory of Value

Tithi Bhattacharya is Professor of South Asian History and Director of Global Studies at Purdue University. She is the author of The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal (2005) and the editor of the now classic study Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression (2017).  Her recent coauthored book, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto (2019), has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She writes extensively on Marxist theory, gender, and the politics of Islamophobia. Her work has been published in the Journal of Asian Studies, South Asia Research, Electronic Intifada, Jacobin, Salon.com, The Nation, and the New Left Review. She is on the editorial board of Studies on Asia and Spectre.