Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies.

Sexual Politics is the debut book by American writer and activist Kate Millett, based on her PhD dissertation at Columbia University.[] It was published in 1970 by Doubleday. It is regarded as a classic of feminism and one of radical feminism’s key texts, a formative piece in shaping the intentions of the second-wave feminist movement. In Sexual Politics, an explicit focus is placed on male […]

As this book enters its fourth edition, it’s been adopted widely around the coun try and translated into several languages. It’s personally gratifying, of course, but more gratifying is the embrace of the book’s vision of a world in which gender inequal ity is but a distant anachronism, and a serious intellectual confrontation with gender […]

With each new edition of Thinking about Women, there is an opportunity to reflect on changes in the status of women and men in society. News headlines and popular books proclaim various changes—that “The End of Men” is near or that women need to “Lean In” to find success in hitherto men’s worlds. Various commentators […]

Ten years ago I completed the manuscript of Gender Trouble and sent it to Routledge for publication. I did not know that the text would have as wide an audience as it has had, nor did I know that it would consti tute a provocative “intervention” in feminist theory or be cited as one of […]

INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S STUDIES: GENDER IN A TRANSNATIONALWORLD Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue ofthe Americas, NewYork, NY, 10020. Copyright © 2006, 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, […]

This book is an attempt to approach the study of gender both as an academic practice and as a feature of our everyday lives. We encounter issues relating to gender even before we leave the womb – as parents plan for the birth of a girl or a boy by preparing clothes in appropriate colours […]

Influenced mainly by liberal and socialist feminists, several gendered approaches to development have emerged, in part, as critiques of the major theoretical approaches to development – modernisation theory, underdevelopment and dependency theory, and neo-liberalism – in the Third World countries since the 1950s. A major policy highlight of this has been the predominance of ‘efficiency […]

People often consider feminism to be a modern idea and assume that women of the past simply accepted the life carved out for them. In fact, women’s rights have been at the forefront of political and social debate for centuries. Written over 200 years ago, The Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouges started […]

The Declaration of Sentiments begins by asserting the equality of all men and women and reiterates that both genders are endowed with unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It argues that women are oppressed by the government and the patriarchal society of which they are a part