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'''''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.
'''''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", not reprinted there. ''[[L’ennemi principal: 1. Économie politique du patriarcat|L’ennemi principal]]'' also contains two texts not found in ''Close to Home'': "La transmission héréditaire" and "Capitalisme, patriarcat et lutte de femmes", as well as a longer version of the introduction.
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 ==
== Contents ==
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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
  1. Introduction to the collection 15
  2. Women in stratification studies 28
  3. Sharing the same table: consumption and the family 40
  4. The main enemy 57
  5. Housework or domestic work 78
  6. Continuities and discontinuities in marriage and divorce 93
  7. Our friends and ourselves: the hidden foundations of various pseudo-feminist accounts 106
  8. Patriarchy, feminism and their intellectuals 138
  9. A materialist feminism is possible 154
  10. Protofeminism and antifeminism 182
  11. For a materialist feminism 211
Bibliography 220
Index 225


Bibliographical Information

  • ISBN 0-87023-453-6 (cloth); ISBN 0-87023-454-4 (paper)