This now classic book traces the social origins of the sexual division of labor. It gives a history of the related processes of colonization and "housewifization" and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labor and the role that women have to play as the cheapest producers and consumers. First published in 1986, it was hailed as a major paradigm shift for feminist theory. Eleven years on, Maria Mies' theory of capitalist patriarchy has become even more relevant; this new edition includes a substantial new introduction in which she both applies her theory to the new globalized world and answers her critics.
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“Feminist theory at its very best.” —Off Our Backs
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“A major contribution to authentic development theory and practice.” —World Development
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Maria Mies is Professor of Sociology at the Fachhoschschule in Cologne, Germany.
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The Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) is perhaps the most controversial, as well as the most far-reaching of the new social movements: the ecology movement, the alternative movement, the peace movement, and others. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
integrating women into development, optimal labour force, own bodily nature, overdeveloped countries, female foeticide, predatory mode, male productivity, dowry demands, external colonies, female foetuses, housewife model, new feminist movement, feminist rebellion, dowry murders, capitalist patriarchy, extended reproduction, proletarian women, feminist concept Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Latin America, First World, West Germany, Soviet Union, Dalla Costa, South-East Asia, Rameeza Bee, Rosa Luxemburg, World Bank, Supreme Court, West Africa, Claudia von Werlhof, Mother Earth, Rhoda Reddock, Andhra Pradesh, Operation Flood, Sri Lanka, Free Production Zones, German Social Democrats, Truong Than Dam, Christine White, Carolyn Merchant, Elisabeth Fisher, Federal German, Forum Against Rape New!
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The Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) is perhaps the most controversial, as well as the most far-reaching of the new social movements: the ecology movement, the alternative movement, the peace movement, and others. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
integrating women into development, optimal labour force, own bodily nature, overdeveloped countries, female foeticide, predatory mode, male productivity, dowry demands, external colonies, female foetuses, housewife model, new feminist movement, feminist rebellion, dowry murders, capitalist patriarchy, extended reproduction, proletarian women, feminist concept Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Latin America, First World, West Germany, Soviet Union, Dalla Costa, South-East Asia, Rameeza Bee, Rosa Luxemburg, World Bank, Supreme Court, West Africa, Claudia von Werlhof, Mother Earth, Rhoda Reddock, Andhra Pradesh, Operation Flood, Sri Lanka, Free Production Zones, German Social Democrats, Truong Than Dam, Christine White, Carolyn Merchant, Elisabeth Fisher, Federal German, Forum Against Rape New!
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- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherrie Moraga in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mother Nature by Margaret Bacon on page 75, and page 87
- The Origin of the Family: Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels on page 50, and Back Matter
- Men in Groups by Lionel Tiger on page 60, and Back Matter
- Toward Anthropology of Women by Rayna R. Reiter on page 73, and Back Matter
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- Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives by Sandra Harding on page 35, page 206, and page 232
- Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation by Vasant Kaiwar on page 218, and Back Matter
- Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Race, Orient, Nation by Vasant Kaiwar on page 218, and Back Matter
- Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, and Bio/Diversity by Susan Hawthorne PhD in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Work and Migration: Life and Livelihoods in a Globalizing World (Routledge Research in Transnationalism) by Karen Fog Olwig on page 80
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