Women's Oppression Today
The Marxist/Feminist Encounter
3rd Edition
Published on 12. August 2014
336 pages
978-1-78168-532-7 (ISBN)
Description
Women's Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the "family-household system" operate in relation to contemporary capitalism. In this updated edition, Mich¿le Barrett surveys the social and intellectual changes that have taken place since the book's original publication, and looks back at the political climate in which the book was written. In a major new essay, she defends the central arguments of the book, at the same time addressing the way such an engagement would play out differently today, over thirty years later.
A foreword by Kathi Weeks examines the importance of approaching all feminist theories as events whose repercussions stretch beyond the circumstances of their creation.
A foreword by Kathi Weeks examines the importance of approaching all feminist theories as events whose repercussions stretch beyond the circumstances of their creation.
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3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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ISBN-13
978-1-78168-532-7 (9781781685327)
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Persons
Mich¿le Barrett is Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author, among other works, of Women's Oppression Today, The Anti-Social Family, and Politics of Diversity (co-authored with Roberta Hamilton).
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword: Re-encountering Marxist Feminism by Kathi Weeks
- Introduction to the 1988 Edition
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- 1. Some Conceptual Problems in Marxist Feminist Analysis
- 2. Femininity, Masculinity and Sexual Practice
- 3. Ideology and the Cultural Production of Gender
- 4. The Educational System: Gender and Class
- 5. Gender and the Division of Labour
- 6. Women's Oppression and 'the Family'
- 7. Feminism and the Politics of the State
- 8. Capitalism and Women's Liberation
- Afterword: Revisiting the Marxist/Feminist Encounter in 2014
- Select Bibliography
