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Women´s Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter
Michele Barrett
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Description for Women´s Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter
Paperback. A classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; JPFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 424.
Women's Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the "family-household system" operate in relation to contemporary capitalism. In this updated edition, Michèle Barrett surveys the social and intellectual changes that have taken place since the book's original publication, and looks back at the political climate in which the book was written. In a major new essay, she defends the central arguments of the book, at the same time addressing the way such an engagement would play out differently today, over thirty years later.
A foreword by Kathi Weeks examines ... Read more
Women's Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the "family-household system" operate in relation to contemporary capitalism. In this updated edition, Michèle Barrett surveys the social and intellectual changes that have taken place since the book's original publication, and looks back at the political climate in which the book was written. In a major new essay, she defends the central arguments of the book, at the same time addressing the way such an engagement would play out differently today, over thirty years later.
A foreword by Kathi Weeks examines ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
424g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781680131
SKU
V9781781680131
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About Michele Barrett
Michèle Barrett is Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author, among other works, of Women's Oppression Today, The Anti-Social Family, and Politics of Diversity (co-authored with Roberta Hamilton).
Reviews for Women´s Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter
Michèle Barrett's excellent and lucid discussion of the issues and debates within contemporary feminist theory makes a major contribution to our understanding of the nature of that oppression.
Mary Evans
New Society
This book is a school of thought.
Frigga Haug
Das Argument
Historically significant and deeply relevant to today's discussions, Barrett's interrogation of ... Read more
Mary Evans
New Society
This book is a school of thought.
Frigga Haug
Das Argument
Historically significant and deeply relevant to today's discussions, Barrett's interrogation of ... Read more