Aiming to create new terms for thinking about gender and generational relationships, this book recasts conventional understandings of the family as an institution for organizing labour and consumption. The authors' theoretical discussion is presented alongside a comparative study of the family in rural and urban areas.

Product Description: Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women’s liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists, whether “bourgeois” and heterosexual women are retrogressive members of the women’s movement, and how best to struggle against the multiple oppressions women endure...read more