Woman's Estate
Published on 4. March 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-80429-958-6 (ISBN)
Description
Scrutinizing the political background of the movement, its sources and its common ground with other radical movements of the sixties, Women's Estate describes the organization of women's liberation in Western Europe and America, locating the areas of women's oppression in four key areas: work, reproduction, sexuality and the socialization of children. Through a detailed study of the modern family and a reevaluation of Freud's work in this field, Mitchell paints a detailed picture of how patriarchy works as a social order.
Reviews / Votes
The quality of Mitchell's thinking is revealed by her ability both to be critical of certain aspects of the women's movement, and yet keep herself free of the bitterness and disillusion of radicals of an older generation. -- Richard Sennett * New York Review of Books * Juliet Mitchell's brilliant book from 1970 knew in advance that movements of liberation are linked, that economic analysis alone cannot fully describe oppression, and that recourse to feelings can only be a point of departure for analyzing social conditions and structures that produce women as a class. Her analysis brought complexity and passion to the understanding of the feminist movement that is all too timely today as recourse to biological reductionism moves some forms of feminisms to the Right. This book offers a splendid analysis that keeps the reader moving through dimensions of oppression still only rarely thought together - family, class, race, education, and religion. A new benchmark then and now for social analysis that thinks gendered life in its formative political and psychic conditions, and a persistent and compelling vision of the reflective alliances needed for overcoming oppression. -- Judith Butler, author of <i>Who's Afraid of Gender?</i>More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
158 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80429-958-6 (9781804299586)
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Juliet Mitchell FBA is Emeritus Professor at the Universities of Cambridge and London, and the Founder Director of the Centre for Gender Studies in the University of Cambridge. Her many books include: Psychoanalysis & Feminism, Women: The Longest Revolution, Woman's Estate, Mad Men and Medusas, Siblings: Sex and Violence, and, most recently, Fratriarchy. She is also a Fellow of both the British Academy and the International Psychoanalytical Association, and in 2022 she was made an Honorary Fellow of the University of Metz-Lorraine (France).