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Author Brenner, Johanna.

Title Women and the politics of class / Johanna Brenner
Published New York : Monthly Review Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description vi, 330 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Pt. I. Toward a Historical Sociology of Gender. 1. Rethinking Women's Oppression. 2. Gender and the State. 3. Gender and Class in U.S. Labor History -- Pt. II. Women and Social Policy. 4. The Feminization of Poverty, Comparable Worth, and Feminist Political Discourse. 5. The Politics of Welfare Reform. 6. Welfare Reform: Reframing the Debate -- Pt. III. New Politics of the Family. 7. Socialist-Feminism versus Communitarian Conservatism. 8. Democracy, Community, and Care -- Pt. IV. Class Politics and Feminist Strategy. 9. Meeting the Challenge of the Political Right. 10. The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: U.S. Feminism Today -- Conclusion: Intersections, Locations, and Capitalist Class Relations: Intersectionality from a Marxist Perspective
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Feminism -- Political aspects -- United States.
Working class women -- United States.
LC no. 99027817
ISBN 1583670092 cloth alk. paper
1583670106 paper alk. paper