What is social class? How does social class interact with patriarchy and masculine domination to give shape to contemporary societies? What does Marxian economic theory add to the analysis of gendered domination and feminist critiques of power? These are some of the questions addressed by Home/Front. The authors of this volume of interdisciplinary scholarship use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to answer these questions and explore power, domination, and exploitation in the modern household. Home/Front is divided...
What is social class? How does social class interact with patriarchy and masculine domination to give shape to contemporary societies? What does Marxi...
The world has entered a sustained period of crisis, and in order to understand the forces that created our social world, we need the tools provided by a critical sociology. This volume draws upon the work of contemporary sociologists searching for the roots of our present social and economic problems
The world has entered a sustained period of crisis, and in order to understand the forces that created our social world, we need the tools provided by...
In 1936, director John Ford claimed to be making movies for a new kind of public that wanted more honest pictures. In this insightful and stimulating book Cassano argues that this new kind of public was forged in the fires of class struggle and economic calamity. Those struggles appeared in Hollywood productions, as the movies themselves tried to explain the causes and consequence of the Great Depression. Using the tools of critical Marxism and cultural theory, Cassano surveys Hollywood s political economic explanations and finds a field of symbolic struggle in which radical visions of...
In 1936, director John Ford claimed to be making movies for a new kind of public that wanted more honest pictures. In this insightful and stimulating ...
