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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462682103321

Autore

Burton Clare

Titolo

Subordination : feminism and social theory / / Clare Burton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-08485-3

1-283-84252-1

1-136-19441-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory

Disciplina

305.4/2

305.42

Soggetti

Sex role

Feminism

Women and socialism

Sex discrimination against women

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1985 by George Allen & Unwin.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

SUBORDINATION Feminism and Social Theory; Copyright; SubordinationFeminism and Social Theory; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Technical Note; Introduction; 1 Engels, the Search for Origins, and Feminist Theory; Problems of historical reconstruction; Prehistoric origins; 2 Engels, Class and Women; Class and women's subordination; Lessons from classless societies; Conclusions; 3 Public and Private Worlds; Radical feminism; Feminist-informed ethnography; Marxist-feminist and related approaches; The male wage labourer; Conclusions; 4 Domestic Labour and the Political Economy of Women

Women as a structural groupThe domestic mode of production; Domestic labour and capitalist production; Women, domestic labour and legitimation; Conclusions; 5 Psychoanalysis, Masculinity/Femininity and the Family; Juliet Mitchell and psychoanalysis; Freud, Lacan and feminist theory; Conclusions; 6 An Extended Theory of Social Reproduction; Feminist theory and the state; The state and biological reproduction; Education and social reproduction; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index



Sommario/riassunto

Subordination presents a survey of some of the most important ideas developed within feminism since the 1970s. Among the central themes addressed are: the origins of women's subordination; the private/public split; the nature and the role of domestic labour; the impact of psychoanalysis on feminist theory; the relationship between the State and women's subordination. One of the book's purposes is to draw together strands of thought and debate often kept separate.Throughout, the major theoretical developments in Britain, the United States and Australia are reviewed within a c