Familiar exploitation : a new analysis of marriage in contemporary Western societies / Christine Delphy and Diana Leonard.

  • Delphy, Christine
Date:
1992
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Marriage in contemporary Western societies

Description

"This important new book creates new terms for thinking about gender and generational relationships. In so doing it recasts conventional understandings of the family as an institution for organizing labour and consumption. Delphy and Leonard present their wide -- ranging theoretical discussion alongside a comparative study of the family in urban and rural areas. Theoretical innovation is consistently matched by empirical analysis of the family in diverse settings."--Publisher description.

Publication/Creation

Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, 1992.

Physical description

301 pages ; 23 cm.

Related material

This item was donated as part of The Women's Health Library archive held by Wellcome Collection, reference SA/WHL https://wellcomecollection.org/works/fjg4s86y

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-288) and index.

Contents

Introduction: feminism and the family -- Part of capitalism: accounts of women's oppression in the family by traditional marxists -- Still part of capitalism? marxist feminist accounts of the family -- Housework, household work and family work -- The family as an economic system: introduction and common misconceptions -- The family as an economic system: theoretical outline -- Factory workers' families in Britain -- Farm families in France -- The variety of work done by wives.

Notes

Copy 1. Donor: This item was originally held in the Women's Health Library. It was donated to Wellcome in 2016 by the Feminist Library, which acted as temporary custodian following the closure of Women's Health in 2006.
Copy 1. Former Women's Health Library shelfmark: Btd

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ISBN

  • 0745608582
  • 9780745608587
  • 0745609856
  • 9780745609850