Zillah R. Eisenstein (Book order)

Zillah R. Eisenstein Book order

Zillah Eisenstein is a professor of politics whose writing serves as an integral part of her political activism. For twenty-five years, she has engaged with feminist theory in North America, tracking the rise of neoliberalism and scrutinizing imperialist globalization. Her work explores the building of coalitions across women's differences and critically examines issues such as racism, patriarchy, and new nationalisms. Eisenstein writes to share and learn with others engaged in struggles for social justice.

Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism

424 pages
15 hours of reading

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Fourteen provocative papers on the oppression of women in capitalist countries, along with three articles on the subordinate position of women in two communist countries, Cuba and China. These important, often path-breaking articles are arranged in five basic sections, the titles of which indicate the broad range of issues being considered: Introduction; motherhood, reproduction, and male supremacy; socialist feminist historical analysis; patriarchy in revolutionary society; socialist feminism in the United States. The underlying thrust of the book is toward integrating the central ideas of radical feminist thought with those pivotal for Marxist or socialist class analysis.