Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale :Women in the International Division of Labour ( 3 )

Publication subTitle :Women in the International Division of Labour

Publication series :3

Author: Mies   Maria;Federici   Silvia  

Publisher: Zed Books‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9781783602582

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781783601691

Subject: C913.68 Womens Issues;D44 妇女运动与组织

Keyword: 妇女问题,妇女运动与组织,工人、农民、青年、妇女运动与组织

Language: ENG

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Description

A ground-breaking theory of capitalist patriarchy explaining womens exploitation from the beginning.

Chapter

Violence, the secret of capitalist patriarchy

What is different today?

References

Introduction

1 What is Feminism?

Where are we today?

Fair-weather Feminism?

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

Concepts

Exploitation or Oppression/Subordination?

Capitalist-Patriarchy

Overdeveloped-Underdeveloped Societies

Autonomy

Notes

2 Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour

The Search for Origins Within a Feminist Perspective

Biased Concepts

Suggested Approach

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

Notes

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 Colonialism

Women under German Colonialism

White Women in Africa

Housewifization

Notes

4 Housewifization International: Women and the New International Division of Labour

International Capital Rediscovers Third World Women

Why Women?

Women as 'Breeders' and Consumers

Linkages: Some Examples

Conclusion

Notes

5 Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Capital

Dowry-Murders

Amniocentesis and 'Femicide'

Rape

Analysis

Are men rapists by nature?

Conclusion

Notes

6 National Liberation and Women’s Liberation

Women in the 'Dual Economy'

The Soviet Union

China

Vietnam

Why are women mobilized for the national liberation struggle?

Why are women 'pushed back' again after the liberation struggle?

Theoretical blind-alleys

Notes

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

An alternative economy

Intermediate steps

Autonomy over consumption

Autonomy over production

Struggles for human dignity

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Back cover

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