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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)