Familiar Exploitation: A New Analysis of Marriage in Contemporary Western SocietiesISBN: 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.