Class struggle on the homefront
Subtitle: work, conflict, and exploitation in the household
By: edited by Graham Cassano
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780230229266
Description: "Home Front examines the gendered exploitation of labor in the household from a postmodern Marxian perspective. The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power, domination, and exploitation in the modern household"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 276-304) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : method(s), narrative, and scientific "truth" / Graham Cassano; title: For every knight in shining armour, there's a castle waiting to be cleaned : a Marxist-feminist analysis of the household / Harriet Fraad, Stephen Resnick, and Richard Wolff; title: Connecting sex to class / Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff; title: The class analysis of households extended : children, fathers, and family budgets / Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff; title: Starving and hungry : anorexia nervosa and the female body politic / Harriet Fraad; title: Toiling in the field of emotion / Harriet Fraad; title: Contested constructions of the migrant "home" : gender, class and belonging in the Anatolian-German community / Esra Erdem; title: Economic effects of remittances on immigrant and non-immigrant households / Maliha Safri; title: A class analysis of single-occupied households / Satyananda J. Gabriel; title: The class-gender nexus in the American economy and in attempts to "rebuild the labor movement" / Michael Hillard and Richard McIntyre; title: "Hunkies," "gasbags," and "reds" : the construction and deconstruction of labor's hegemonic masculinities in Black fury (1935) and Riff raff (1936) / Graham Cassano.