Table of Contents

Christine Delphy
Activist and Theorist
Delphy′s Materialist Feminism
Patriarchal Relations in Families
Women as a Class
The Question of Gender
Conclusion
Feminist Knowledge and Feminist Politics
Annotated Bibliography

About the Author

Stevi Jackson is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Women′s Studies at the University of Strathclyde. Her most recent publications include The Politics of Domestic Consumption: Critical Readings (co-edited with Shaun Moores) and Feminism and Sexuality: A Reader (co-edited with Sue Scott).

Reviews

`This book in the series Woman od Ideas introduces the work of Christine Delphy, focussing on her views of patriarchial exploitation, class, gender, the institutionalism of feminism, & the social & political context in which she developed her ideas.′ Feminist/Gender Studies `Jackson′s introduction to Delphy is especially welcome, since it is, to my knowledge, the first book-length English-language study of Delphy′s work.... Jackson outlines Delphy′s central concepts and theories with outstanding clarity and helpfully makes continual efforts to situate Delphy politically, amidst other brands of "French feminism". Jackson lucidly sets out the differences between the materialist, radical feminist current with which Delphy is associated and the socialist and Psychanalyse et Politique currents. Furthermore, Jackson refreshingly objects to the (still rather entrenched) Anglo-American habit of attending exclusively to a small number of French feminists and marginalising others, such as Delphy, reminding us that these marginalised others have often been the more influential and central figures within French feminist theory and activism′ - Women′s Philosophy Review