Reevaluating and developing Marx for feminist theory today
2. The Early Writings on Gender and the Family
Di Stefano, voluntarism and transcendence
Overcoming hierarchical dualisms
Gender in the 1844 Manuscripts
Feminist theory and the 1844 Manuscripts
'Crude Communism', private property, and women
Women's alienation in capitalist society
Modes of production and the course of history
The family and class-society
On the 'Bourgeois Family'
Alienation, bourgeois morality and suicide
Revisiting the nature/culture and man/woman dualisms
3. Political Economy, Gender, and the 'Transformation' of the Family Engels's 'Principles of Communism' in relation to gender and the family
Gender and the family in The Communist Manifesto
Nature and society in Capital
Nature and the labour-process
The political economy of Capital, Volume I
The dual nature of labour and commodities
Feminist critiques of Marx on production and reproduction
Production, consumption and reproduction in capitalism
'Productive' and 'unproductive' labour
Gender and the family in Capital
'The Working Day' and 'Machinery and Large-Scale Industry'
The effects of machinery on women
The dialectics of the struggle over the working-day
Reprising the 'transformation' of the family in Capital
4. Marx's Journalism and Political Activities
The Preston strikes and women's labour
The Bulwer-Lytton scandal
Women and the First International
Women and the Paris Commune
Critique of the Gotha Programme
Labour, nature, and wealth in the Critique of the Gotha Programme
'The Programme of the Parti Ouvrier'
5. Patriarchy, Women's Oppression and Resistance: Comparing Marx and Engels on Gender and the Family in Precapitalist Societies
Marx's notebooks and the history of Engels's The Origin of the Family
Separating Marx from Engels
Marx, feminism and dialectics
Marx's notebooks in historical context
The dialectics of the family
Slavery, the patriarchal family, and monogamy
Women's historical position and subjectivity
Engels's Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Feminist responses to 'Origin of the Family'
Unilinearism and economic determinism
Similarities and differences on patriarchal society and its historical significance
Engels's uncritical acceptance of Morgan and Bachofen on women's position in clan-societies
Comparing Marx and Engels on gender and the family
6. The Family, the State and Property-Rights: The Dialectics of Gender and the Family in Precapitalist Societies
Maine's Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
The patriarchal family and the clan
Fosterage and the ancient-Irish family
The position of women in ancient-Irish society
Women's property-rights in Indian society
Marx's notebooks on Ludwig Lange's Römische Alterthümer
Class-conflict, the development of the state and the position of women
Arrogation, Patria Potestas and women
Property and inheritance-rights
Evaluating Marx's work on gender and the family for today
