Materialist feminism : a reader in class, difference, and women's lives /

Materialist feminism : a reader in class, difference, and women's lives / edited by Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham. - New York : Routledge, 1997. - ix, 430 p. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-430).


Introduction : reclaiming anticapitalist feminism / Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham
The political economy of women's liberation / Margaret Benston
The politics of women's liberation today / Mary Alice Waters
Introduction to The power of women and the subversion of the community / Selma James
Women and the subversion of the community / Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Selma James
Not for lesbians only / Charlotte Bunch
For a materialist feminism / Christine Delphy
What is socialist feminism? / Barbara Ehrenreich
The oppression of women : a structuralist Marxist view / Martha Gimenez
Feminism and materialism / Annette Kuhn and Ann Marie Wolpe
Ideology and the cultural production of gender / Michèle Barrett
Socialist feminism and the limits of dual systems theory / Iris Marion Young
The incompatible ménage à trois : Marxism, feminism, and racism / Gloria Joseph
White woman listen! : Black feminism and the boundaries of sisterhood / Hazel V. Carby
The Hoechst Chemical Company and boredom with the economy / Frigga Haug
From the woman question to women's liberation / Lise Vogel
Theories of the family / Lindsey German
Women working worldwide / Swasti Mitter
Colonization and housewifization / Maria Mies
The construction of woman in three popular texts of empire : toward a critique of materialist feminism / Rosemary Hennessy and Rajeswari Mohan
Socialist feminism : our bridge to freedom / Nellie Wong
Marxism, feminism, and the struggle for democracy in Latin America / Norma Chinchilla
Transgender liberation : a movement whose time has come / Leslie Feinberg
Theorizing race, class, and gender : the new scholarship of Black feminist intellectuals and Black women's labor / Rose M. Brewer
Where's the revolution? / Barbara Smith
Touring Thailand's sex industry / Lillian S. Robinson
Identity and the lifestyle market / Nicola Field
The heterosexual imaginary : feminist sociology and theories of gender / Chrys Ingraham
A materialist feminist reading of Jeanne Duval : prostitution and sexual imperialism from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day / Victoria P. Tillotson
Motherhood in crisis : women, medicine, and state in Canada, 1900-1940 / Cynthia R. Comacchio
A value-theoretic approach to childbirth and reproductive engineering / Kathryn Russell
Standing on solid ground : a materialist ecological feminism / Gwyn Kirk
"History is what hurts" : a materialist feminist perspective on the green revolution and its ecofeminist critics / Meera Nanda
Feminism and the ends of postmodernism / Carol A. Stabile


In making 20 years of materialist feminist thought more accessible, this text should contribute to the development of feminism's third wave.

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Women and socialism.
Feminism.
Feminist theory.

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