1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820997403321

Autore

Mies Maria

Titolo

Patriarchy and accumulation on a world scale : women in the international division of labour / / Maria Mies ; with a foreword by Silvia Federici

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Zed Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78360-258-9

Edizione

[3rd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

Critique Influence Change

Disciplina

305.4

Soggetti

Sexual division of labor

Women - History

Women - Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; critique influence change; About the author; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the critique influence change edition; Violence, the secret of capitalist patriarchy; What is different today?; References; Introduction; 1 What is Feminism?; Where are we today?; Fair-weather Feminism?; What is New About Feminism? Continuities and Discontinuities; Continuities: Women's Liberation - A Cultural Affair?; Discontinuities: Body Politics; Discontinuities: A New Concept of Politics; Discontinuities: Women's Work; Concepts; Exploitation or Oppression/Subordination?

Capitalist-Patriarchy Overdeveloped-Underdeveloped Societies; Autonomy; Notes; 2 Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour; The Search for Origins Within a Feminist Perspective; Biased Concepts; Suggested Approach; Appropriation of Nature by Women and Men; Women's/Men's Appropriation of Their Own Bodies; Women's and Men's Object-Relation to Nature; Men's Object-Relation to Nature; Female Productivity as the Precondition of Male Productivity; The Myth of Man-the-Hunter; Women's Tools, Men's Tools; 'Man-the-Hunter' under Feudalism and Capitalism; Notes; 3 Colonization and Housewifization

The Dialectics of 'Progress and Retrogression' Subordination of Women, Nature and Colonies: The underground of capitalist patriarchy or



civilized society; The Persecution of the Witches and the Rise of Modern Society: Women's productive record at the end of the Middle Ages; The Subordination and Breaking of the Female Body: Torture; Burning of Witches, Primitive Accumulation of Capital, and the Rise of Modern Science; Colonization and Primitive Accumulation of Capital; Women under Colonialism; Women under German Colonialism; White Women in Africa; Housewifization; Notes

4 Housewifization International: Women and the New International Division of LabourInternational Capital Rediscovers Third World Women; Why Women?; Women as 'Breeders' and Consumers; Linkages: Some Examples; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Capital; Dowry-Murders; Amniocentesis and 'Femicide'; Rape; Analysis; Are men rapists by nature?; Conclusion; Notes; 6 National Liberation and Women's Liberation; Women in the 'Dual Economy'; The Soviet Union; China; Vietnam; Why are women mobilized for the national liberation struggle?

Why are women 'pushed back' again after the liberation struggle? Theoretical blind-alleys; Notes; 7 Towards a Feminist Perspective of a New Society; The case for a middle-class feminist movement; Basic Principles and Concepts; Towards a feminist concept of labour; An alternative economy; Intermediate steps; Autonomy over consumption; Autonomy over production; Struggles for human dignity; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

A ground breaking theory of capitalist patriarchy explaining women's exploitation from the beginning.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694198003321

Titolo

Improper payments : where are truth and transparency in federal financial reporting? : hearing before the Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security Subcommittee the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, July 12, 2005

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iii, 74 p.) : ill

Soggetti

Finance, Public - United States - Accounting

Administrative agencies - United States - Accounting

Payment - United States

Waste in government spending - United States

United States Appropriations and expenditures Auditing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia