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.Rachel Hills’s foreword to this new edition explores how Christine Delphy’s analysis of marriage as the institution behind the exploitation of unpaid women’s labor is as radical and relevant today as it ever was.

Close to home: A materialist analysis of women's oppression (Explorations in feminism)

Politics & Social Sciences

Delphy, Christine

Social Sciences

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

Aiming to create new terms for thinking about gender and generational relationships, this book recasts conventional understandings of the family as an institution for organizing labour and consumption. The authors' theoretical discussion is presented alongside a comparative study of the family in rural and urban areas.

Familiar Exploitation: A New Analysis of Marriage in Contemporary Western Societies (Feminist Perspectives)

Self-Help

Leonard, Diana

Relationships

Polity Pr

This important new book creates new terms for thinking about gender and generational relationships. In so doing it recasts conventional understandings of the family as an institution for organizing labour and consumption.   Delphy and Leonard present their wide-ranging theoretical discussion alongside a comparative study of the family in urban and rural areas. Theoretical innovation is consistently matched by empirical analysis of the family in diverse settings.

Familiar Exploitation: A New Analysis of Marriage in Contemporary Western Societies

Polity

Once described by Simone de Beauvoir as France’s most exciting feminist writer, the sociologist Christine Delphy was a central figure in French feminism, and one of the first to focus on the structural importance of the family in understanding women’s oppression. Close to Home is her classic study of the family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of the women’s liberation movement. Debating 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, Close to Home remains as relevant today as when it was published in the seventies.

Close to home: A materialist analysis of women's oppression

University of Massachusetts Press

Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression (English and French Edition)

Univ of Massachusetts Pr

The main enemy: A materialist analysis of women's oppression (Explorations in feminism)

Women's Research and Resources Centre Publications

Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror

An examination of how mainstream feminism has been mobilized in support of racist measures Feminist Christine Delphy co-founded the journal Nouvelles questions féministes with Simone de Beauvoir in the 1970s and became one of the most influential figures in French feminism. Today, Delphy remains a prominent and controversial feminist thinker, a rare public voice denouncing the racist motivations of the government’s 2011 ban of the Muslim veil. Castigating humanitarian liberals for demanding the cultural assimilation of the women they are purporting to “save,” Delphy shows how criminalizing Islam in the name of feminism is fundamentally paradoxical. Separate and Dominate is Delphy’s manifesto, lambasting liberal hypocrisy and calling for a fluid understanding of political identity that does not place different political struggles in a false opposition. She dismantles the absurd claim that Afghanistan was invaded to save women, and that homosexuals and immigrants alike should reserve their self-expression for private settings. She calls for a true universalism that sacrifices no one at the expense of others. In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, her arguments appear more prescient and pressing than ever.

Verso

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. Rachel Hills’s foreword to this new edition explores how Christine Delphy’s analysis of marriage as the institution behind the exploitation of unpaid women’s labor is as radical and relevant today as it ever was.

Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Women's Oppression (Feminist Classics)

Sociology

Verso Books

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