Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Rachel Hills s foreword to this new edition explores how Christine Delphy s analysis of marriage as the institution behind the exploitation of unpaid women s labor is as radical and relevant today as it ever was."