Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour

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Palgrave Macmillan, 1998 - Business & Economics - 251 pages
This now classic book traces the social origins of the sexual division of labor. It gives a history of the related processes of colonization and 'housewifization' and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labor and the role which women have to play as the cheapest producers and consumers. First published in 1986, it was hailed as a major paradigm shift for feminist theory. Eleven years on, Maria Mies' theory of capitalist patriarchy has become even more relevant. In this new edition she both applies to her theory to the new, globalized world and answers her critics.
 

Contents

Foreword
1
Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour
44
Colonization and Housewifization
74
Women and the
112
Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive
145
National Liberation and Womens Liberation
175
Towards a Feminist Perspective of a New Society
205
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About the author (1998)

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).