Table of Contents

Introduction to the New Edition. Foreword. 1. What is Feminism? 2. Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour. 3. Colonization and Housewifization. 4. Housewifization International: Women and the International Division of Labour. 5. Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Capital. 6. National Liberation and Women's Liberation. 7. Towards a Feminist Perspective of a New Society

Promotional Information

This study traces the social origins of the sexual division of labour. It provides a history of the related processes of colonization and housewifization and extends this analysis to the international division of labour. In this second edition, Maria Mies answers her critics.

About the Author

Maria Mies is a sociologist and author of several books on women, economic sustainability and the environment as well as articles in numerous journals. After returning from many years in India, she became head of the Women's Studies Programme at the Institute of Social Sciences in the Hague, and subsequently Professor of Sociology at the achhochsch{umlaut}u in Cologne. Having retired from teaching in 1993, she continues to be active in a range of women's and environmental movements. She is currently writing on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment and, with Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen, a book on the subsistence perspective (forthcoming from Zed Books in 1999).

Reviews

"Feminist theory at its very best." --"Off Our Backs"
"A major contribution to authentic development theory and practice." --"World Development"

“Feminist theory at its very best.” —"Off Our Backs"
“A major contribution to authentic development theory and practice.” —"World Development"

" Feminist theory at its very best." -- "Off Our Backs"
" A major contribution to authentic development theory and practice." -- "World Development"