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1 online resource (430 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Women's Studies Group: trying to do feminist intellectual work; Women's studies in academic institutions; Establishing the group; Work in the Women's Studies Group; Conclusion; Notes and references; 2. 'It is well known that by nature women are inclined to be rather personal'; Women by nature; ... inclined to be rather personal; Acknowledgements; Notes and references; 3. Women 'inside and outside' the relations of production; Introduction; Women working in the home |
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The distinction between productive and unproductive labourThe value of labour power; Surplus value/surplus labour; The state, reproduction of labour power and the subordination of women; The Factory Acts; The Liberal reforms; The Beveridge Report; The post-war period; Women in waged work; Capital accumulation; Women's subordination; Equal pay; The introduction of the Equal Pay Act and the Sex Discrimination Act; Effects of the Equal Pay Act; Part-time work -- the contradictions; Patriarchal attitudes at industrial tribunals; Acknowledgements; Notes and references; Introduction |
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Women working in the homeThe state, reproduction of labour power and the subordination of women; Women in waged work; Equal pay; 4. Housewives: isolation as oppression; Methodological notes; Wage labour; Anne; Linda; Betty; Isolation; Domestic labour: endless toil with no leisure; Generational reproduction; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes and references; Key to transcripts; 5. Working class girls and the culture of femininity; Class, sex, school and family; The culture of femininity; Notes and references; 6. Psychoanalysis and the cultural acquisition of sexuality and subjectivity |
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IntroductionFreud: anatomical or cultural privilege?; Lacan: sexuality, language and subjectivity; Feminist assessments of psychoanalysis; Juliet Mitchell: the material location of the unconscious; Marxism and Lacanian theory: feminist developments; Political and theoretical perspectives: psychoanalysis, feminism and Marxism; Psychoanalysis and Marxism; Conclusion; Notes and references; 7. A Woman's World: Woman -- an ideology of femininity; The ideology of femininity; 'Woman' as media re/production of ideology; A woman's 'stronghold': consigned to everyday life (Lefebvre 1971, p. 92) |
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Personal life is ... motherhood ... is nationhoodWork at femininity ... beauty and fashion ... cookery and home ... and catch your man; In control -- 'Actionwoman' -- with rights and power ... and duties; Love is ... romance ... is marriage and children; 'The right man' (9 July 1977); 'The Meringue' (30 July 1977); Dear Anna Raeburn, femininity catches me, traps me ... oppresses me -- but I keep crying for more ... ; Notes and references; 8. Relations of reproduction: approaches through anthropology; Social relations of production: absent concepts, absent sex; Women in reproduction; Enter sex-gender relations |
| Summary |
First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
| Notes |
Relations of biological reproduction |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135032067 |
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1135032068 |
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