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Women and socialism : essays on women's liberation / Sharon Smith.

By:

Smith, Sharon, 1956- [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago, Ill. : Haymarket Books, 2005.Description: 222 pages. ; 18 cmISBN:

1931859116 (pbk.)
9781931859110 (pbk.)
1931859116

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.42 22

LOC classification:

HX 546 .S625 2005

Contents:

Introduction Is this post-feminism - or anti-feminism? -- 1. The origin of women's oppression -- 2. Abortion rights: the socialist case -- 3. What ever happened to feminism? -- 4. Women and Islam -- 5. Women and socialism.

Summary: "Three decades have passed since the heyday of the women's liberation movement, yet women remain oppressed the world over. Mainstream feminism has shifted steadily rightward since the 1970s - embracing Bush's war on Afghanistan in 2001, and even endorsing Democratic Party efforts to seek "common ground" with abortion opponents after John Kerry's defeat in 2004. This approach has proven disastrous for women, from the U.S. to Afghanistan. This collection of essays examines these issues from a Marxist perspective - addressing the reasons why women are oppressed, the different nature of oppression between women of different social classes, and the basis for building a movement that can end women's oppression, along with all other forms of inequality."-- From the back cover.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
BOOKS	Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks	HX 546 .S625 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan		NPML21020003

Includes bibliographical references (pages. 198-217) and index.

"Three decades have passed since the heyday of the women's liberation movement, yet women remain oppressed the world over. Mainstream feminism has shifted steadily rightward since the 1970s - embracing Bush's war on Afghanistan in 2001, and even endorsing Democratic Party efforts to seek "common ground" with abortion opponents after John Kerry's defeat in 2004. This approach has proven disastrous for women, from the U.S. to Afghanistan. This collection of essays examines these issues from a Marxist perspective - addressing the reasons why women are oppressed, the different nature of oppression between women of different social classes, and the basis for building a movement that can end women's oppression, along with all other forms of inequality."-- From the back cover.

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