Beyond Female Masochism: Memory-Work and Politics

by Frigga Haug

Book Overview

Frigga Haug, one of Germany's best-known feminist and Marxist critics, develops here a profound challenge both to women's oppression and to what she sees as women's 'collusion' in that oppression. Rejecting the essentialism of much feminist writing today, along with the denial of subjectivity that still permeates Marxism, Haug explores the connections between Marxist theory and the emancipation of women, a project which necessarily involves, as she...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 086091562X
• ISBN13: 9780860915621
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"