Feminism And Materialism by Kuhn, Annette - 1978

Routledge. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Routledge. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 1978. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 345 pp. Contents; 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. Subjects; Women Social conditions. Feminist theory. Sexual division of labor. Feminist theory. Employment (Economic theory). Families. Patriarchy.

Paperback / softback. New. 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 labour and the state. The centrality of two of the major themes - the family and the labour process - suggests that an understanding of women's situation is necessarily based on an analysis of the structures of production and reproduction. The authors' aim in producing Feminism and Materialism is to confront systematically theoretical issues current in the developing… Read More

Routledge, 2012. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 328 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.25 inches.