The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy

In the mid-1990s, at the height of discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical responses to The End of Capitalism and outline the economic research and activism they have been engaged in since the book was first published.

The witty and incisive spliced author, J.K. Gibson-Graham, has given us a superb tool for undoing the strangling grip of the ways we understand capitalism. The End of Capitalism made me feel like an iron strap was removed from my lungs. In a wave of relief, I experienced Gibson-Graham to be teaching me to breath again outside the depleted atmosphere in which the story of Capitalism always and everywhere fills all space and time

Donna Haraway, 1996

The Full Endorsement by Donna Haraway, 1996

The witty and incisive spliced author, J.K. Gibson-Graham, has given us a superb tool for undoing the strangling grip of the ways we understand capitalism. The End of Capitalism made me feel like an iron strap was removed from my lungs. In a wave of relief, I experienced Gibson-Graham to be teaching me to breath again outside the depleted atmosphere in which the story of Capitalism always and everywhere fills all space and time. By helping me notice again how much of the present world is not accounted for by the mega-narrative of the Monster Capital, Gibson-Graham teaches me to work more effectively toward a well-nourished and well-aerated non-capitalist economy, culture and society. Gibson-Graham knows how to see the glimmerings and hear the mutterings of non-capitalist practices amidst the cacophony of accounts of the ubiquitous and all-powerful Presence of Capital. The book helps feed the starving waif of a world-changing left political imagination. The End of Capitalism teaches its readers to hear and see what already exists in irreducible specificity—and to understand why it is so hard to narrate and explain these realities. The point of this controversial and risk-taking book is to learn with intellectual rigor and lusty strength how to enlarge non-capitalist worlds on the real earth.