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Latest revision as of 18:25, 3 September 2012
Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression (1984) is a collection of essays by Christine Delphy, translated into English from the French by Diana Leonard, who also contributes a preface.
Most of the texts in this collection can be found in their original French version in Delphy's L’ennemi principal: 1. Économie politique du patriarcat (1998). The exceptions are chapter 8, "Patriarchy, feminism and their intellectuals" and chapter 9, "A materialist feminism is possible", which appear in the next volume: L’ennemi principal: 2. Penser le genre (2001).
Contents
- Preface 7
- Introduction to the collection 15
- Women in stratification studies 28
- Sharing the same table: consumption and the family 40
- The main enemy 57
- Housework or domestic work 78
- Continuities and discontinuities in marriage and divorce 93
- Our friends and ourselves: the hidden foundations of various pseudo-feminist accounts 106
- Patriarchy, feminism and their intellectuals 138
- A materialist feminism is possible 154
- Protofeminism and antifeminism 182
- For a materialist feminism 211
- Bibliography 220
- Index 225
Bibliographical Information
- ISBN 0-87023-453-6 (cloth); ISBN 0-87023-454-4 (paper)