Full Description
Lise Vogel is a unique voice in feminist theory. This book collects her best essays, opening a window into the last half century of US socialist feminism.
A trailblazer in the 1970s, Vogel planted the seeds for contemporary Social Reproduction Theory with her 'unitary theory' of exploitation and the oppression of women. Along with others, she challenged established views within the academy and movement by insisting that Marxist theory can accommodate not only class, but also race and gender. Today her work is more popular than ever, inspiring socialist feminists to develop inclusive liberatory ideas for the next generation.
Collecting five decades of Vogel's work, including long out-of-print material, this collection is a crucial resource for readers interested in the intellectual history of Marxist-feminism and twentieth-century activism.
Contents
Editor's Preface
Foreword by Paula Varela
1. Introduction to Woman Questions
2. The Earthly Family (Abridged)
3. Fine Arts and Feminism: The Awakening Consciousness
4. Class and Other Roots
5. The Contested Domain: A Note on The Family in the Transition to Capitalism
6. Questions on the Woman Question
7. Marxism and Feminism: Unhappy Marriage, Trial Separation or Something Else?
8. From the Woman Question to Women's Liberation
9. Engels's Origin: Legacy, Burden and Vision
10. Socialist Feminism
11. Telling Tales: Historians of Our Own Lives
12. Questioning Equality
13. Beyond Equality versus Difference
14. Beyond Intersectionality
15. "She Was My Kind of Scientist": Margaret Benston and the Political Economy of Women's Liberation
Acknowledgments
Index
