Chapter
Violence, the secret of capitalist patriarchy
What is New About Feminism? Continuities and Discontinuities
Continuities: Women's Liberation - A Cultural Affair?
Discontinuities: Body Politics
Discontinuities: A New Concept of Politics
Discontinuities: Women's Work
Exploitation or Oppression/Subordination?
Overdeveloped-Underdeveloped Societies
2 Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour
The Search for Origins Within a Feminist Perspective
Appropriation of Nature by Women and Men
Women's/Men's Appropriation of Their Own Bodies
Women's and Men's Object-Relation to Nature
Men's Object-Relation to Nature
Female Productivity as the Precondition of Male Productivity
The Myth of Man-the-Hunter
Women's Tools, Men's Tools
'Man-the-Hunter' under Feudalism and Capitalism
3 Colonization and Housewifization
The Dialectics of 'Progress and Retrogression'
Subordination of Women, Nature and Colonies: The underground of capitalist patriarchy or civilized society
The Persecution of the Witches and the Rise of Modern Society: Women's productive record at the end of the Middle Ages
The Subordination and Breaking of the Female Body: Torture
Burning of Witches, Primitive Accumulation of Capital, and the Rise of Modern Science
Colonization and Primitive Accumulation of Capital
Women under German Colonialism
4 Housewifization International: Women and the New International Division of Labour
International Capital Rediscovers Third World Women
Women as 'Breeders' and Consumers
5 Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Capital
Amniocentesis and 'Femicide'
Are men rapists by nature?
6 National Liberation and Women’s Liberation
Women in the 'Dual Economy'
Why are women mobilized for the national liberation struggle?
Why are women 'pushed back' again after the liberation struggle?
7 Towards a Feminist Perspective of a New Society
The case for a middle-class feminist movement
Basic Principles and Concepts
Towards a feminist concept of labour
Autonomy over consumption
Struggles for human dignity