Bringing It All Back Home: Class, Gender, and Power in the Modern Household
Harriet Fraad, Stephen Resnick, and Richard Wolff
Bringing It All Back Home uses the intimate arena of the household as the novel setting for a groundbreaking study of the relationships among class, gender, and power today. The authors--and the feminist scholars who offered responses to their critique--integrate the rich traditions of Marxism and feminism, and more recent developments in Marxian theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis, to theorise a new approach to the contemporary crisis of the family. They offer an innovative reading of the relationship between class and gender, in which the household itself can be seen as the site of conflict and of profound transformation. In the process, they suggest a new range of possibilities for thinking about and understanding the complexity of human existence
Harriet Fraad is a practising psychoanalytic psychotherapist and has been an active member of the feminist movement since 1968. Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff are Professors of Economics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and authors of numerous articles and books on Marxian theory and economics, including Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political Economy and Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical.
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Contents
- INTRODUCTION by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- For Every Knight in Shining Armor, There's a Castle Waiting to Be Cleaned: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis of the Household
- Debating the Marxist-Feminist Interpretation of the Household
- Julie Matthaei
- Zillah Eisenstein
- Kim Lane Scheppele
- Nancy Folbre and Heidi Hartmann
- Stephanie Koontz
- The Reagan-Bush Strategy: Shifting Crises from Enterprises to Households
- Anorexia as Crises Embodied: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis
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