Woman Questions
Essays for a Materialist Feminism
Published on 20. July 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
172 pages
978-0-7453-0676-6 (ISBN)
Description
In this collection of essays, the author - an American feminist thinker - focuses on key theoretical ideas: the problem of theorizing gender alongside race and class, the relationship of feminism to Marxism and the evolution of social-feminist theory and practice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Illustrations
notes, index
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
276 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7453-0676-6 (9780745306766)
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Content
Part 1 Socialist feminism: questions on the woman question; socialist feminism. Part 2 Feminism and Marxist theory: Marxism and feminism - unhappy marriage, trial separation or something else?; Engel's origin - a defective formulation; from the woman question to women's liberation. Part 3 Difference, diversity and equality: class and other roots; telling tales - historians and our own lives; beyond equality - some feminist questions; considering difference - the case of the family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.