Close to Home
A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression
Published on 13. September 2016
256 pages
978-1-78478-252-8 (ISBN)
Description
Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women's liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists, whether "bourgeois" and heterosexual women are retrogressive members of the women's movement, and how best to struggle against the multiple oppressions women endure.
Rachel Hills's foreword to this new edition explores how Christine Delphy's analysis of marriage as the institution behind the exploitation of unpaid women's labor is as radical and relevant today as it ever was.
Rachel Hills's foreword to this new edition explores how Christine Delphy's analysis of marriage as the institution behind the exploitation of unpaid women's labor is as radical and relevant today as it ever was.
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Edition
Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78478-252-8 (9781784782528)
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09/2016
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Persons
Christine Delphy is a French writer, sociologist and theorist. She co-founded, with Simone de Beauvoir, Nouvelles questions f¿ministes, and is the author of Separate and Dominate.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Introduction to the collection
- 2. Women in stratification studies
- 3. Sharing the same table: consumption and the family
- 4. The main enemy
- 5. Housework or domestic work
- 6. Continuities and discontinuities in marriage and divorce
- 7. Our friends and ourselves: the hidden foundations of various pseudo-feminist accounts
- 8. Patriarchy, feminism and their intellectuals
- 9. A materialist feminism is possible
- 10. Protofeminism and antifeminism
- 11. For a materialist feminism
- Bibliography
- Notes and Reference
- Index
