ISBN:
9780415637053
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (121 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Feminist Theory Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version The Liberation of Women (RLE Feminist Theory) : A Study of Patriarchy and Capitalism
DDC:
305.4
Keywords:
Feminism ; History
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Women ; History
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
In The Liberation of Women, Roberta Hamilton explores two of the key questions that have been systematically raised by the Women's Liberation Movement: why have women occupied a subordinate position in society and how can the variation in the forms and intensity of their exploitation and oppression be explained? Within the Women's Liberation Movement there have been seen to be two different and opposed answers to these questions: a feminist answer and a Marxist one. The feminist analysis has addressed itself to a patriarchal ideology, locating the source of male domination and female subordina
Description / Table of Contents:
THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN A study of Patriarchy and Capitalism; THE LIBERATION OF WOMEN A study of Patriarchy and Capitalism; Copyright; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1 The Changing Role of Women in the Seventeenth Century; 2 The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism: A Marxist Perspective on the Changing Role of Women; The feudal family; The transition to capitalism; A Marxist analysis: two classes; two classes of women; 3 The Transition from Catholicism to Protestantism, a Transformation in Patriarchal Ideology: A Feminist Perspective on the Changing Role of Women
Description / Table of Contents:
Catholicism, women and the familyThe Protestant world-view; The 'little church'; The implications for women: a win, a loss or a draw?; The feminist analysis: a proper marriage; a proper wife; 4 An Examination of the Marxist and Feminist Theories; The debate; The historical test; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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