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Subject(s)

• Sexual division of labor [Browse]
• Women—History [Browse]
• Women—Social conditions [Browse]

Author of introduction, etc

• Federici, Silvia [Browse]

Series

• critique influence change [More in this series]
• Critique Influence Change

Summary note

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

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 16, 2014).

Language note

English

Contents

• 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

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ISBN

• 1-350-34818-X
• 1-78360-258-9

OCLC

897640236

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