Marxism and the oppression of women : : toward a unitary theory / / by Lise Vogel ; new introduction by Susan Ferguson and David McNally.

• Author: Vogel, Lise.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series 45.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Notes: "First published in the USA in 1983 by Rutgers University Pres."

Nearly thirty years after its initial publication, Marxism and the Oppression of Women remains an essential contribution to the development of an integrative theory of gender oppression under capitalism. Lise Vogel revisits classical Marxian texts, tracking analyses of “the woman question” in socialist theory and drawing on central theoretical categories of Marx's Capital to open up an original theorisation of gender and the social production and reproduction of material life. Included in this edition are Vogel's article, “Domestic Labor Revisited” (originally published in Science andamp; Society in 2000) which extends and clarifies her main theoretical innovations, and a new Introduction by Susan Ferguson and David McNally situating Vogel's work in the trajectory of Marxist-feminist thought over the past forty years.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Decade of Debate -- 3. Socialist Feminism and the Woman-Question -- 4. Early Views -- 5. Marx: the Mature Years -- 6. Engels: a Defective Formulation -- 7. The Second International -- 8. Toward Revolution -- 9. A Dual Legacy -- 10. The Reproduction of Labour-Power -- 11. Beyond Domestic Labour -- Appendix: Domestic Labour Revisited -- References -- Index.