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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463125803321

Titolo

Feminism and materialism : women and modes of production / / edited by Annette Kuhn and AnnMarie Wolpe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-09408-5

1-283-86129-1

1-136-20464-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory ; ; v. 7

Altri autori (Persone)

KuhnAnnette

WolpeAnnMarie

Disciplina

305.4/2

305.42

305.4201

Soggetti

Women - Social conditions

Feminist theory

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1978 by Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

FEMINISM AND MATERIALISM Women and Modes of Production; Copyright; Feminism and Materialism Women and Modes of Production; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Notes on contributors; 1 Feminism and materialism; 2 Patriarchy and relations of production; 3 Structures of patriarchy and capital in the family; 4 Church, state, and family: the women's movement in Italy; 5 Sexual division of labour: the case of nursing; 6 Modes of appropriation and the sexual division of labour: a case study from Oaxaca, Mexico; 7 Women and production: a critical analysis of some sociological theories of women's work

8 Domestic labour and Marx's theory of value9 Women, sex, and class; 10 The state and the oppression of women; 11 Education and the sexual division of labour

Sommario/riassunto

These original essays are planned to provide a coherent basis for an understanding of women's social and historical situation. This achieved by outlining the foundation of a systematic approach to an analysis of women's relationship to modes of production and reproduction within a



materialist framework. The essays, each with a brief editorial introduction, deal with issues and perspectives brought increasingly to the fore in recent years, not only in the women's movement but in the social sciences generally. The articles are wide-ranging, covering such issues as patriarchy, paid and unpaid