Feminism and Materialism by Annette Kuhn

Feminism and Materialism by Annette Kuhn

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Feminism and Materialism by Annette Kuhn

These original essays are planned to provide a coherent basis for an understanding of women's social and historical situation. This achieved by outlining the foundation of a systematic approach to an analysis of women's relationship to modes of production and reproduction within a materialist framework. The essays, each with a brief editorial introduction, deal with issues and perspectives brought increasingly to the fore in recent years, not only in the women's movement but in the social sciences generally. The articles are wide-ranging, covering such issues as patriarchy, paid and unpaid labour and the state. The centrality of two of the major themes - the family and the labour process - suggests that an understanding of women's situation is necessarily based on an analysis of the structures of production and reproduction.

The authors' aim in producing Feminism and Materialism is to confront systematically theoretical issues current in the developing area of women's studies, while recognising that this must constitute a critique of existing theoretical frameworks. The book will be of interest to teachers and students in the social sciences and in women's studies, as well as to all those who wish to develop an understanding of what a materialist approach to feminism might be.

Annette Kuhn is Senior Professorial Fellow in Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London, a longstanding co-editor of the journal Screen, and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her books include Family Secrets: Acts of Memory and Imagination (1995 and 2002); An Everyday Magic: Cinema and Cultural Memory (I.B.Tauris, 2002); Ratcatcher (2008); and (with Guy Westwell) The Oxford Dictionary of Film Studies (2012).
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ISBN 13 9780710000743
ISBN 10 071000074X
Title Feminism and Materialism
Author Annette Kuhn
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 1978-11-09
Number of pages 320
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