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Marx on gender and the family : a critical study /

This, the first book-length study devoted exclusively to Marx's perspectives on gender and the family, offers a fresh look at this topic in light of twenty-first century concerns.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brown, Heather A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.
Colección:Historical materialism book series ; v. 39.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter One Introduction
  • Reevaluating and developing Marx for feminist theory today
  • Overview of the book
  • Chapter Two The Early Writings on Gender and the Family
  • The 1844 Manuscripts
  • Di Stefano, voluntarism and transcendence
  • Overcoming hierarchical dualisms
  • Naturalism and humanism
  • Marx and human nature
  • Lab our. and alienation
  • Gender in the 1844 Manuscripts
  • Alienation and gender
  • Feminist theory and the 1844 'Manuscripts'
  • 'Crude Communism', private property, and women
  • Women's alienation in capitalist society
  • Modes of production and the course of history.
  • The family and class-societyOn the 'bourgeois family'
  • Alienation, bourgeois morality and suicide
  • Revisiting the nature/culture and man/woman dualisms
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Three Political Economy, Gender, and the 'Transformation' of the Family
  • Engels's 'Principles of Communism' in relation to gender and the family
  • The Communist Manifesto
  • Gender and the family in 'The Communist Manifesto'
  • Nature and society in Capital
  • Nature and the labour-process
  • Necessity and freedom
  • The political economy of Capital, Volume I
  • The dual nature of labour and commodities.
  • Feminist critiques of Marx on production and reproductionProduction, consumption and reproduction in capitalism
  • 'Productive' and 'unproductive' labour
  • Gender and the family in Capital
  • 'The Working Day' and 'Machinery and Large-Scale Industry'
  • The effects of machinery on women
  • Women and morality
  • The dialectics of the struggle over the working-day
  • Reprising the 'transformation' of the family in 'Capital'
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Four Marx's Journalism and Political Activities
  • The Preston strikes and women's labour
  • The Bulwer-Lytton scandal
  • Women and the First International.
  • Marx and the KugelmannsWomen and the Paris Commune
  • After the Commune
  • 'Critique of the Gotha Programme'
  • Lab our. nature, and wealth in the 'Critique of the Gotha Programme'
  • 'The Programme of the Parti Ouvrier'
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter Five Patriarchy, Women's Oppression and Resistance: Comparing Marx and Engels on Gender and the Family in Precapitalist Societies
  • Marx's notebooks and the history of Engels's The Origin of the Family
  • Separating Marx from Engels
  • Marx, feminism and dialectics
  • Marx's notebooks in historical context
  • Morgan's Ancient Society
  • Marx's notes on Morgan.
  • The dialectics of the familySlavery, the patriarchal family, and monogamy
  • Women's historical position and subjectivity
  • Engels's Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
  • Feminist responses to 'Origin of the Family'
  • Unilinearism and economic determinism
  • Similarities and differences on patriarchal society and its historical significance
  • Engels's uncritical acceptance of Morgan and Bachofen on women's position in clan-societies
  • Comparing Marx and Engels on gender and the family.
  • Chapter Six The Family, the State and Property-Rights: The Dialectics of Gender and the Family in Precapitalist Societies.