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Feminism and the Marxist Movement
Since the founding of the modern workers movement 150 years ago, Marxists have championed the struggle for women's rights and explained the economic roots in class society of women's oppression. Photos.
Women and Revolution
Presentations accompanying the release of Vilma Espín Guillois' book, Las mujeres in Cuba (translated into English as Women in Cuba), given at the International Havana Book Fair, 2012.
The Mark Curtis Hoax
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Cosmetics, Fashion, and the Exploitation of Women
New, expanded edition With a 2024 preface and new opening chapter, "Norms of beauty and fashion are inseparable from the class struggle," both by Mary-Alice Waters. How do capitalism's cosmetics and fashion "industries" play on the emotional, sexual, and economic insecurities of women and adolescents to generate profits? Why are the ever-changing dominant standards of "beauty" always those of the ruling class? How did women become "the second sex," and how can this product of class-divided society be ended? How has the entire structure of oppression been weakened by the accelerated integration of women into the workforce worldwide? In the early 1950s, a lively debate on these issues was spar...
The Book Club
For five women whose lives are in transition, their regular book club meeting provides them a place of comfort, support, and sanctuary.
Materialist Feminism
During the 1980s, capitalism triumphantly secured its global reach, anti-communist ideologies hammered home socialism's inherent failure, the New Left increasingly moved into the professional middle class--and many of feminism's earlier priorities were marginalized. "Identity politics", often formulated in terms of social reconstructionism or multiculturalism, has increasingly suppressed materialist feminism's systematic perspective, replacing it with discourse analysis or cultural politics. Materialist Feminism: A Reader argues against the retreat to multiculturalism for keeping invisible the material links among the explosion of meaning-making practices in highly industrialized social sectors, the exploitation of women's labor, and the appropriation of women's bodies that continues to undergird the scramble for profits and state power in multinational capitalism.
The Gelfand Case
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Classical Sociological Theory
A concise, yet surprisingly comprehensive theory text, given the range of ideas, historical context, and theorists discussed. Unlike other books of the type, Classical Sociological Theory focuses on how the pivotal theories contributed not only to the development of the field, but also to the evolution of ideas concerning social life.
The Summer Girls
Originally published in hardcover in 2013 by Gallery Books. Reprinted in paperback 2014 with a readers group guide and an excerpt from the author's forthcoming novel: The Summer Wind, book two in the Lowcountry Summer trilogy.
