Close to Home: Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression (Explorations in feminism) - Softcover

Delphy, Christine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0091534119 ISBN 13: 9780091534110

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1984

Synopsis

Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women's liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists, whether 'bourgeois' and heterosexual women are retrogressive members of the women s movement, and how best to struggle against the multiple oppressions women endure. Rachel Hills's foreword to this new edition explores how Christine Delphy's analysis of marriage as the institution behind the exploitation of unpaid women s labor is as radical and relevant today as it ever was.

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Review

'She writes with an extraordinarily clear-eyed passion ... Delphy's words are persuasive.' --Daily Telegraph

About the Author

Christine Delphy is a French writer, sociologist and theorist. She co-founded, with Simone de Beauvoir, Nouvelles questions féministes, and is the author of Separate and Dominate.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0091534119
• ISBN 13: 9780091534110
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Leonard Diane