Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression

by Christine Delphy

Book Overview

Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women's liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists, whether "bourgeois" and heterosexual women are retrogressive members of the women's movement, and how best to struggle against the multiple oppressions women endure...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784782505
• ISBN13: 9781784782504
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A must read.

One of the best books I’ve ever had the opportunity of reading. Christine Delpy is simply brilliant.