Bringing It All Back Home: Class, Gender and Power in the Modern Household Today

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Bringing It All Back Home uses the intimate arena of the household as the unique setting for a groundbreaking study of the relationships between 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. Harriet Fraad is a feminist activist, psychotherapist and hypnotherapist in New York City. She was in the forefront of the Feminist movement. She is the founder of the journal Rethinking Marxism and specializes in writing about the intersection between economics and psychology. Stephen Resnick (October 24, 1938 – January 2, 2013) was an American heterodox economist. Much of his work, co-written with Richard D. Wolff, was on Marxian economics, economic methodology, and class analysis. His work is informe by a post-Marxist and post-Althusserian perspective on political economy. His works include New Departures in Marxian Theory: Economics as Social Theory (Routledge, NY, 2006). Richard Wolff is an American Marxian economist, known for his work on economic methodology and class analysis. He is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School in New York. He co-founded the journal Rethinking Marxism. He has published many works including Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It (Interlink 2010), Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism (City Lights Books, 2010), Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian, with Stephen Resnick (MIT University Press, 2010), and Democracy at Work (Haymarket Books, 2010). Cover New Directions/Rethinking Marxism Title Page Copyright Contents Editor's Preface Introduction by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 1. For Every Knight in Shining Armor, There's a Castle Waiting to be Cleaned: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis of the Household 2. Debating the Marxist-Feminist Interpretation of the Household Responses to Chapter 1: Julie Matthaei: Surplus Labor, the Household, and Gender Oppression Zillah Eisenstein: Rejecting 'Pricise' Marxism for Feminism Kim Lane Scheppele: Constructive Marxian Theory Nancy Folbre and Heidi Hartmann: The Persistence of Patriarchal Capitalism Stephanie Coontz: History and Family Theory The Authors Reply: Class, Patriarchy and Power Kim Lane Scheppele Julie Matthaei Nancy Folbre and Heidi Hartmann Zillah Eisenstein Conclusion 3. The Reagan-Bush Strategy: Shifting Crises from Enterprises to Households 4. Anorexia as Crises Embodied: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis Notes References Index