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Subordination (RLE Feminist Theory): Feminism and Social Theory book cover

1st Edition

Subordination (RLE Feminist Theory) Feminism and Social Theory

By Clare Burton Copyright 1985
168 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge
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Subordination presents a survey of some of the most important ideas developed within feminism since the 1970s. Among the central themes addressed are: the origins of women’s subordination; the private/public split; the nature and the role of domestic labour; the impact of psychoanalysis on feminist theory; the relationship between the State and women’s subordination. One of the book’s purposes... Read more

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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Clare Burton

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