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Social Science Marriage & Family

Women, Class, Family and the State

by (author) Varda Burstyn & Dorothy E. Smith

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1985
Category
Marriage & Family, General, Feminism & Feminist Theory
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920059142
    Publish Date
    Jan 1985
    List Price
    $28.95

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Description

The articles in this book begin from a concern to understand the relation between patriarchy and capitalism and to come to grips with the dissatisfaction many women feel despite the rhetoric of sexual equality which has become commonplace.

Dorothy Smith examines the changing relation between the family and the economy in the context of the capitalist mode of production. Varda Burstyn traces the history of the sexual division of labour in pre-capitalist societies and shows how in industrial societies the state becomes the expression and enforcer of masculine domination.

About the authors

Varda Burstyn is an award-winning author who has written for film, television, radio and scholarly publications. She is a life-long environmentalist who has lived in Israel, the United States and France, and now divides her time between Toronto and southern Quebec. This is her first novel.

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Dorothy E. Smith is an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria and the author of Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology (UTP 1988) and The Conceptual Practices of Power (UTP 1990).

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