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Author:   Clare Burton
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9780415637022

ISBN 10:   0415637023
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   11 October 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of 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 group. The 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.

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