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Familiar Exploitation: A New Analysis of Marriage in Contemporary Western Societies

ISBN: 978-0-7456-0985-0
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312 pages
August 1992, Polity
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Introduction.

1. Feminism and the Family.

Part I: Critical Perspectives.

2. Part of Capitalism: Accounts of Womens' Oppression in the Family by Traditional Marxists.

3. Still Part of Capitalism? Marxist Feminist Accounts of the Family.

Part II: A New Theoretical Approach to the Western Family.

4. Housework, Household Work and Family Work.

5. The Family as an Economic System: Introduction and Common Misconceptions.

6. The Family as an Economic System: Theoretical Outline.

Part III: Empirical Studies.

7. Factory Workers' Families in England.

8. Farm Families in France.

9. The Variety of Work Done by Wives.

10. Conclusion.

Bibliography.

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