Author: Michele Barrett File Type: epub Womens Oppression Today is a classic text in the debate about Marxism and feminism, exploring how gender, sexuality and the family-household systemoperate in relation to contemporary capitalism. In this updated edition, Michele Barrett surveys the social and intellectual changes that have taken place since the books original publication, and looks back at the political climate in which the book was written. In a major new essay, she defends the central arguments of the book, at the same time addressing the way such an engagement would play out differently today, over thirty years later. A foreword by Kathi Weeks examines the importance of approaching all feminist theories as events whose repercussions stretch beyond the circumstances of their creation. **htmlReview Michele Barretts excellent and lucid discussion of the issues and debates within contemporary feminist theory makes a major contribution to our understanding of the nature of that oppression. Mary Evans, London School of Economics This book is a school of thought. Frigga Haug, author of Female Sexualization A Collective Work of Memory Historically significant and deeply relevant to todays discussions, Barretts interrogation of Marxism, feminism, patriarchy and the state is serious yet accessible this is a key text in the history (and present) of both Marxism and feminism. Nina Power, author of One-Dimensional Woman Barretts eloquent elucidation of the ties and ruptures between feminism and Marxism at the close of the 1970s is especially timely today ... as austerity measures hit women in particular hardest. Lynne Segal, Birkbeck College, University of London About the Author Michele Barrett is Professor of Modern Literary and Cultural Theory in the School of English and Drama, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author, among other works, of Womens Oppression Today, The Anti-Social Family, and Politics of Diversity (co-authored with Roberta Hamilton). html

Author: Matthew Ingleby File Type: pdf This study explores the role of fiction in the social production of the West Central district of London in the nineteenth century. It tells a new history of the novel from a local geographical perspective, tracing developments in the form as it engaged with Bloomsbury in the period it emerged as the citys dominant literary zone. A neighbourhood that was subject simultaneously to socio-economic decline and cultural ascent, fiction set in Bloomsbury is shown to have reconceived the areas marginality as potential autonomy. Drawing on sociological theory, this book critically historicizes Bloomsburys trajectory to show that its association with the intellectual fraction known as the Bloomsbury Group at the beginning of the twentieth century was symptomatic rather than exceptional. From the 1820s onwards, writers positioned themselves socially within the metropolitan geography they projected through their fiction. As Bloomsbury became increasingly identified with the cultural capital of writers rather than the economic capital of established wealth, writers subtly affiliated themselves with the area, and the figure of the writer and Bloomsbury became symbolically conflated. **