CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY AND THE CASE FOR SOCIALIST FEMINISM
CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY AND THE CASE FOR SOCIALIST FEMINISM
edited by Zillah R. Eisenstein
Monthly Review Press
New York
Copyright © 1979 by Zillah R. Eisenstein
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Capitalist patriarchy and the case for socialist feminism.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Feminism—United States—Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Women and socialism—Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Eisenstein, Zillah R.
HQ1426.C244 301.41′2 77-76162
ISBN: 978-0-853-45476-2
Monthly Review Press | New York
I ain’t gonna die.
I’m goin’ home like a shootin’ star.
—Sojourner Truth
For my sister Sarah Eisenstein,
who died before any of us
were ready to part with her.
CONTENTS
Developing a Theory of Capitalist Patriarchy and Socialist Feminism
Zillah Eisenstein
Some Notes on the Relations of Capitalist Patriarchy
Zillah Eisenstein
Feminist Theory and the Development of Revolutionary Strategy
Nancy Hartsock
Motherhood, Reproduction, and Male Supremacy
Mothering, Male Dominance, and Capitalism
Nancy Chodorow
The Struggle for Reproductive Freedom: Three Stages of Feminism
Linda Gordon
Socialist Feminist Historical Analysis
The Nineteenth-Century Woman Suffrage Movement and the Analysis of Women’s Oppression
Ellen DuBois
Femininity and Capitalism in Antebellum America
Mary P. Ryan
Capitalist Patriarchy and Female Work
Jean Gardiner
The Other Side of the Paycheck: Monopoly Capital and the Structure of Consumption
Batya Weinbaum and Amy Bridges
Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex
Heidi Hartmann
Woman’s Place Is at the Typewriter: The Feminization of the Clerical Labor Force
Margery Davies
Patriarchy in Revolutionary Society
Emerging from Underdevelopment: Women and Work in Cuba
Carollee Bengelsdorf and Alice Hageman
Margaret Randall
When Patriarchy Kowtows: The Significance of the Chinese Family Revolution for Feminist Theory
Judith Stacey
The Berkeley-Oakland Women’s Union Statement
The Combahee River Collective: A Black Feminist Statement
Dissolving the Hyphen: A Report on Marxist-Feminist Groups 1–5
Rosalind Petchesky
