http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2016/images/joan_acker.jpgJoan Acker, who died on June 22, 2016, was one of the foremost socialist feminists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Her work about gender and class drew much of its creativity from a continual though uneasy engagement between feminism and Marxism. . . . It is noteworthy that Acker's important theoretical work Class Questions: Feminist Answers appeared in 2006, one year before the onset of the Great Financial Crisis. This of course was no mere accident. Acker was deeply concerned about the waning of class analysis, particularly amongst feminist theorists. At the same time she recognized that class was becoming more important than ever, not only because of growing inequality but also growing instability in the capitalist economy.

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