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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811702503321

Titolo

Engels revisited : feminist essays / / edited by Janet Sayers, Mary Evans and Nanneke Redclift

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2009

ISBN

1-135-15558-5

0-203-85721-6

1-283-88324-4

1-135-15559-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Altri autori (Persone)

EvansMary <1946->

RedcliftNanneke

SayersJanet

Disciplina

335.0082

Soggetti

Women and socialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1987 by Tavistock Publications Ltd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Engels Revisited Feminist Essays; Copyright; Engels Revisited New Feminist Essays; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; 1 Introduction: Engels, socialism, and feminism; 2 The origin of the family: Born out of scarcity not wealth; 3 Marxist and non-Marxist elements in Engels' views on the oppression of women; 4 For Engels: Psychoanalytic perspectives; 5 Engels: Materialism and morality; 6 Engels, sexual divisions, and the family; 7 Rights in women: Kinship, culture, and materialism; 8 Engels and the making of Chinese family policy; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This reissued work, first published in 1987, examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination. Engels still occcupies a central role in this debate and feminists writing in the hundred years since the publication of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State frequently turn to this book in an attempt to find validation for their central argument.The contributors to this volume r