| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 232 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Historical materialism book series,
1570-1522 ;
v. 39
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Historical materialism book series ; v. 39.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter One Introduction -- Reevaluating and developing Marx for feminist theory today -- Overview of the book -- Chapter Two The Early Writings on Gender and the Family -- The 1844 Manuscripts -- Di Stefano, voluntarism and transcendence -- Overcoming hierarchical dualisms -- Naturalism and humanism -- Marx and human nature -- Lab our. and alienation -- Gender in the 1844 Manuscripts -- Alienation and gender -- Feminist theory and the 1844 'Manuscripts' -- 'Crude Communism', private property, and women -- Women's alienation in capitalist society -- Modes of production and the course of history. |
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Family and class-societyOn the 'bourgeois family' -- Alienation, bourgeois morality and suicide -- Revisiting the nature/culture and man/woman dualisms -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three Political Economy, Gender, and the 'Transformation' of the Family -- Engels's 'Principles of Communism' in relation to gender and the family -- Communist Manifesto -- Gender and the family in 'The Communist Manifesto' -- Nature and society in Capital -- Nature and the labour-process -- Necessity and freedom -- Political economy of Capital, Volume I -- Dual nature of labour and commodities. |
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Feminist critiques of Marx on production and reproductionProduction, consumption and reproduction in capitalism -- 'Productive' and 'unproductive' labour -- Gender and the family in Capital -- 'The Working Day' and 'Machinery and Large-Scale Industry' -- Effects of machinery on women -- Women and morality -- Dialectics of the struggle over the working-day -- Reprising the 'transformation' of the family in 'Capital' -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four Marx's Journalism and Political Activities -- Preston strikes and women's labour -- Bulwer-Lytton scandal -- Women and the First International. |
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Marx and the KugelmannsWomen and the Paris Commune -- After the Commune -- 'Critique of the Gotha Programme' -- Lab our. nature, and wealth in the 'Critique of the Gotha Programme' -- 'The Programme of the Parti Ouvrier' -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five Patriarchy, Women's Oppression and Resistance: Comparing Marx and Engels on Gender and the Family in Precapitalist Societies -- Marx's notebooks and the history of Engels's The Origin of the Family -- Separating Marx from Engels -- Marx, feminism and dialectics -- Marx's notebooks in historical context -- Morgan's Ancient Society -- Marx's notes on Morgan. |
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Dialectics of the familySlavery, the patriarchal family, and monogamy -- Women's historical position and subjectivity -- Engels's Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State -- Feminist responses to 'Origin of the Family' -- Unilinearism and economic determinism -- Similarities and differences on patriarchal society and its historical significance -- Engels's uncritical acceptance of Morgan and Bachofen on women's position in clan-societies -- Comparing Marx and Engels on gender and the family. |
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Chapter Six The Family, the State and Property-Rights: The Dialectics of Gender and the Family in Precapitalist Societies. |
| Summary |
This, the first book-length study devoted exclusively to Marx's perspectives on gender and the family, offers a fresh look at this topic in light of twenty-first century concerns. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.
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Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. |
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Marx, Karl, 1818-1883. |
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Gender Identity. |
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Feminism. |
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Family. |
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Communism. |
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Women. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Sex role.
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Sex role. |
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Gender roles. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Brown, Heather A. Marx on gender and the family. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012 9789004214286 (DLC) 2012012692 (OCoLC)791680003 |
| ISBN |
9789004230484 (electronic book) |
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9004230483 (electronic book) |
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9789004214286 |
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9004214283 |
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