Engels revisited : feminist essays / edited by Janet Sayers, Mary Evans and Nanneke Redclift.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Mary, 1946-

Redclift, Nanneke.

Sayers, Janet.

Series:

Routledge Revivals

Routledge revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895.

Engels, Friedrich.

Women and socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This reissued work, first published in 1987, examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination. Engels still occcupies a central role in this debate and feminists writing in the hundred years since the publication of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State frequently turn to this book in an attempt to find validation for their central argument.The contributors to this volume r

Contents:

Engels Revisited Feminist Essays; Copyright; Engels Revisited New Feminist Essays; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; 1 Introduction: Engels, socialism, and feminism; 2 The origin of the family: Born out of scarcity not wealth; 3 Marxist and non-Marxist elements in Engels' views on the oppression of women; 4 For Engels: Psychoanalytic perspectives; 5 Engels: Materialism and morality; 6 Engels, sexual divisions, and the family; 7 Rights in women: Kinship, culture, and materialism; 8 Engels and the making of Chinese family policy; Name index; Subject index

Notes:

First published in 1987 by Tavistock Publications Ltd.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-135-15558-5

0-203-85721-6

1-283-88324-4

1-135-15559-3

9780203857212

OCLC:

823387556