Familiar exploitation
Subtitle: a new analysis of marriage in contemporary Western societies
By: Christine Delphy and Diana Leonard.
Contributors: Leonard, Diana.
Series: Feminist perspectives
Publisher: Polity Press; Cambridge Center
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Family; Marriage; Sex role; Women -- Social conditions; Capitalism; Feminist criticism
Description: "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."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-288) and index.