Subordination (Rle Feminist Theory): Feminism and Social Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415754248 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 168 str.

Clare Burton

Opis

'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 and the impact of psychoanalysis on feminist theory.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

Clare Burton