Subordination : feminism and social theory / Clare Burton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burton, Clare, author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory ; v. 26.

Routledge library editions. Feminist theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Sex discrimination against women.

Sex role.

Women and socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 168 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

London : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 is to draw together strands of thought and debate often kept separate.Throughout, the major theoretical developments in Britain, the United States and Australia are reviewed within a c

Contents:

SUBORDINATION Feminism and Social Theory; Copyright; SubordinationFeminism and Social Theory; Copyright; Contents; 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 groupThe 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

Notes:

First published in 1985 by George Allen & Unwin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9781136194405

1136194401

9780203084854

0203084853

9781283842525

1283842521

9781136194412

113619441X

OCLC:

898362268