Class struggle on the homefront
Subtitle: work, conflict, and exploitation in the household
By: edited by Graham Cassano.
Contributors: Cassano, Graham.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230229266
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women -- United States; Social conflict -- United States; Households -- Economic aspects -- United States; Sex role -- United States
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 and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements * Introduction: Method(s), Narrative, and Scientific Truth; title: G.Cassano * PART I: THE OVERDETERMINATION OF HOUSEHOLD CLASS STRUGGLES * For every knight in shining armor, there's a castle waiting to be cleaned: A Marxist-Feminist analysis of the household; title: H.Fraad,S.Resnick& R.Wolff * Connecting Sex to Class; title: S.Resnick &; title: R.Wolff * The Class Analysis of Households Extended: Children, Fathers and Family Budgets; title: S.Resnick &; title: R.Wolff * Starving and Hungry: Anorexia Nervosa and the Female Body Politic; H.Fraad * Toiling in the Field of Emotion; title: H.Fraad * PART II: ILLUSTRATIONS, REVISIONS AND EXTENSIONS * Contested Constructions of the Migrant Home: Gender, Class and Belonging in the Anatolian-German Community; title: E.Erdem * Economic Effects of Remittances on Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Household; title: M.Safri * A Class Analysis of Single-Occupied Households; title: S.Gabriel * The Class-Gender Nexus in the American Economy and in Attempts to Rebuild the Labor Movement; title: M.Hillard&; title: R.McIntyre * Hunkies, Gasbags and Reds: The Construction and Deconstruction of Labors Hegemonic Masculinities in Black Fury (1935) and Riff Raff (1936); G.Cassano * Afterword; title: A.R.Hochschild * Appendix: Original Introduction to Bringing It All Back Home: Class, Gender &; title: Power in the Modern Household; title: G.Spivak * Contributors * Bibliography * Notes Acknowledgements * Introduction: Method(s), Narrative, and Scientific Truth; title: G.Cassano * PART I: THE OVERDETERMINATION OF HOUSEHOLD CLASS STRUGGLES * For every knight in shining armor, there's a castle waiting to be cleaned: A Marxist-Feminist analysis of the household; title: H.Fraad,S.Resnick& R.Wolff * Connecting Sex to Class; title: S.Resnick &; title: R.Wolff * The Class Analysis of Households Extended: Children, Fathers and Family Budgets; title: S.Resnick &; title: R.Wolff * Starving and Hungry: Anorexia Nervosa and the Female Body Politic; H.Fraad * Toiling in the Field of Emotion; title: H.Fraad * PART II: ILLUSTRATIONS, REVISIONS AND EXTENSIONS * Contested Constructions of the Migrant Home: Gender, Class and Belonging in the Anatolian-German Community; title: E.Erdem * Economic Effects of Remittances on Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Household; title: M.Safri * A Class Analysis of Single-Occupied Households; title: S.Gabriel * The Class-Gender Nexus in the American Economy and in Attempts to Rebuild the Labor Movement; title: M.Hillard&; title: R.McIntyre * Hunkies, Gasbags and Reds: The Construction and Deconstruction of Labors Hegemonic Masculinities in Black Fury (1935) and Riff Raff (1936); G.Cassano * Afterword; title: A.R.Hochschild * Appendix: Original Introduction to Bringing It All Back Home: Class, Gender &; title: Power in the Modern Household; title: G.Spivak * Contributors * Bibliography * Notes.