Patriarchy and accumulation on a world scale :women in the international division of labour /Maria Mies.
Description
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 --Exploitation or Oppression/Subordination? --Capitalist-Patriarchy --Overdeveloped-Underdeveloped Societies --Autonomy --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 --Colonization and Housewifization --The Dialectics of 'Progress and Retrogression' --Subordination of Women, Nature and Colonies: The underground of capitalist patriarchy or civilised 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.
xix, 251 pages ;22 cm
Book Details
Author
Mies, Maria.
Place Published
City
London
Date Published
1998
Publication Subjects
Women--History.
Women--Social conditions.
Sexual division of labor.
Feminism.
Feminism.--fast--(OCoLC)fst00922671
Sexual division of labor.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01114830
Women.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01176568
Women--Social conditions.--fast--(OCoLC)fst01176947