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VERSO FEMINIST CLASSICS: TWO NEW BOOKS


CLOSE TO HOME: A MATERIALIST ANALYSIS OF WOMEN’S OPPRESSION

by Christine Delphy

Translated by Diana Leonard

 

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FEMINISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE THIRD WORLD

By Kumari Jayawardena

 

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CLOSE TO HOME: A MATERIALIST ANALYSIS OF WOMEN’S OPPRESSION

by Christine Delphy

 

Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism

 

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2131-close-to-home

 

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.

 

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PAPERBACK: SEPTEMBER 2016 / 256 pages / ISBN 9781784782504 / $23.95 / £11.99 $31.99CAN

 

AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK

 

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2131-close-to-home

 

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FEMINISM AND NATIONALISM IN THE THIRD WORLD

By Kumari Jayawardena

 

A founding text of transnational feminism

 

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2133-feminism-and-nationalism-in-the-third-world

 

For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. In this engaging and well-researched survey, Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the specific struggles of women fighting against colonial power, for education or the vote, for safety, and against poverty and inequality.

 

Journalist and human rights activist Rafia Zakaria’s foreword to this new edition is an impassioned letter in two parts: the first to Western feminists; the second to feminists in the Global South, entreating them to use this “compendium of female courage” as a bridge between women of different nations.

 

Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World was chosen as one of the top twenty Feminist Classics of this Wave, 1970–1990, by Ms. magazine, and won the Feminist Fortnight Award in the UK.

 

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PAPERBACK: SEPTEMBER 2016 / 304 pages / ISBN 9781784784294 / $23.95 / £11.99 $31.99CAN

 

AVAILABLE AS AN E-BOOK

 

https://www.versobooks.com/books/2133-feminism-and-nationalism-in-the-third-world

 

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ALSO AVALIABLE IN THE FEMINIST CLASSICS SERIES:

 

BEYOND THE PALE: White Women, Racism, and History 

by Vron Ware

https://www.versobooks.com/books/1926-beyond-the-pale

 

Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman

by Michele Wallace

https://www.versobooks.com/books/1874-black-macho-and-the-myth-of-the-superwoman

 

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