ISBN:
9781783602582
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (277 pages)
Edition:
3rd ed
Series Statement:
Critique Influence Change
Series Statement:
Critique Influence Change Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Mies, Maria Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale : Women in the International Division of Labour
DDC:
305.42
Keywords:
Sexual division of labor
;
Women -- History
;
Women -- Social conditions
;
Sexual division of labor
;
Women ; History
;
Women ; Social conditions
;
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Abstract:
A ground-breaking theory of capitalist patriarchy explaining women's exploitation from the beginning
Abstract:
Front cover -- critique influence change -- About the author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the critique influence change edition -- Violence, the secret of capitalist patriarchy -- What is different today? -- References -- Introduction -- 1 What is Feminism? -- Where are we today? -- Fair-weather Feminism? -- What is New About Feminism? Continuities and Discontinuities -- Continuities: Women's Liberation - A Cultural Affair? -- Discontinuities: Body Politics -- Discontinuities: A New Concept of Politics -- Discontinuities: Women's Work -- Concepts -- Exploitation or Oppression/Subordination? -- Capitalist-Patriarchy -- Overdeveloped-Underdeveloped Societies -- Autonomy -- Notes -- 2 Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour -- The Search for Origins Within a Feminist Perspective -- Biased Concepts -- Suggested Approach -- Appropriation of Nature by Women and Men -- Women's/Men's Appropriation of Their Own Bodies -- Women's and Men's Object-Relation to Nature -- Men's Object-Relation to Nature -- Female Productivity as the Precondition of Male Productivity -- The Myth of Man-the-Hunter -- Women's Tools, Men's Tools -- 'Man-the-Hunter' under Feudalism and Capitalism -- Notes -- 3 Colonization and Housewifization -- The Dialectics of 'Progress and Retrogression' -- Subordination of Women, Nature and Colonies: The underground of capitalist patriarchy or civilized society -- The Persecution of the Witches and the Rise of Modern Society: Women's productive record at the end of the Middle Ages -- The Subordination and Breaking of the Female Body: Torture -- Burning of Witches, Primitive Accumulation of Capital, and the Rise of Modern Science -- Colonization and Primitive Accumulation of Capital -- Women under Colonialism -- Women under German Colonialism -- White Women in Africa -- Housewifization -- Notes
Abstract:
4 Housewifization International: Women and the New International Division of Labour -- International Capital Rediscovers Third World Women -- Why Women? -- Women as 'Breeders' and Consumers -- Linkages: Some Examples -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5 Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Capital -- Dowry-Murders -- Amniocentesis and 'Femicide' -- Rape -- Analysis -- Are men rapists by nature? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6 National Liberation and Women's Liberation -- Women in the 'Dual Economy' -- The Soviet Union -- China -- Vietnam -- Why are women mobilized for the national liberation struggle? -- Why are women 'pushed back' again after the liberation struggle? -- Theoretical blind-alleys -- Notes -- 7 Towards a Feminist Perspective of a New Society -- The case for a middle-class feminist movement -- Basic Principles and Concepts -- Towards a feminist concept of labour -- An alternative economy -- Intermediate steps -- Autonomy over consumption -- Autonomy over production -- Struggles for human dignity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover
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