Foreword by Silvia Federici Preface to the critique influence change edition Introduction 1. What is Feminism? 2. Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour 3. Colonization and Housewifization 4. Housewifization International: Women and the International Division of Labour 5. Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Capital 6. National Liberation and Women's Liberation 7. Towards a Feminist Perspective of a New Society
A ground-breaking theory of capitalist patriarchy explaining women's exploitation from the beginning.
Maria Mies is a Marxist feminist scholar who is renowned for her theory of capitalist patriarchy, which recognizes third world women and difference. She is a professor of sociology at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, but retired from teaching in 1993. Since the late 1960s she has been involved with feminist activism. In 1979, at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, she founded the Women and Development programme. Her other titles published by Zed include The Lace Makers of Narsapur (1982), Women: The Last Colony (1988), The Subsistence Perspective (1999) and Ecofeminism (2014).
Compelling. One of the most ambitious projects undertaken by a
feminist scholar in recent years.
*Deniz Kandiyoti, SOAS, University of London*
In Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, Maria Mies drew
connections between two structures of domination that had
previously been viewed separately. In showing the convergence
between patriarchy and capitalism, she has pushed intellectual
boundaries, and has enriched feminism, women's struggles, and
movements for social and economic justice. If you want to
understand the roots of the economic crisis, and of violence
against women, read this book. If you want to create alternatives
and participate in shaping living economies, read this book.
Patriarchy and Accumulation is essential reading for all, more so
today than when it was first written.
*Dr. Vandana Shiva, founder of the Research Foundation for Science,
Technology and Ecology and director at the International Forum on
Globalization*
Maria Mies' vision is huge, the scale of her project breathtakingly
bold.
*New Internationalist*
Feminist theory at its very best.
*Off Our Backs*
A major contribution to authentic development theory and practice.
Women cannot hope for justice from a mode of production built on
subordination either as housewife in the West or cheap labour in
the third world. Mies produces an alternative feminist concept of
labour and some strategic elements of its implementation. The
critique is compelling.
*World Development*
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