Patriarchy and Accumulation On A World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour (Critique Influence Change)

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 contemporary new international division of labour and the role which women have to play as the cheapest producers and consumers. In this new edition, Maria Mies applies her theory to the globalized world and answers her critics. 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 That 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; This New Edition Includes A Substantial New Introduction In Which She Both Applies Her Theory To The New Globalized World And Answers Her Critics.--back Cover. What Is Feminism? -- Where Are We Today? -- Fair-weather Feminism? -- What Is New About Feminism? Continuities And Discontinuities -- Continuities: Women's Liberation -- A Cultural Affair? -- Discontinuities: Body Politics -- Discontinuities: A New Concept Of Politics -- Discontinuities: Women's Work -- Exploitation Or Oppression/subordination? -- Capitalist-patriarchy -- Overdeveloped-underdeveloped Societies -- Autonomy -- Social Origins Of The Sexual Division Of Labour -- The Search For Origins Within A Feminist Perspective -- Biased Concepts -- Suggested Approach -- Appropriation Of Nature By Women And Men -- Women's/men's Appropriation Of Their Own Bodies -- Women's And Men's Object-relation To Nature -- Men's Object-relation To Nature -- Female Productivity As The Precondition Of Male Productivity -- The Myth Of Man-the-hunter -- Women's Tools, Men's Tools -- 'man-the-hunter' Under Feudalism And Capitalism -- Colonization And Housewifization -- The Dialectics Of 'progress And Retrogression' -- Subordination Of Women, Nature And Colonies: The Underground Of Capitalist Patriarchy Or Civilised Society -- The Persecution Of The Witches And The Rise Of Modern Society. Women's Productive Record At The End Of The Middle Ages -- The Subordination And Breaking Of The Female Body: Torture -- Burning Of Witches, Primitive Accumulation Of Capital, And The Rise Of Modern Science -- Colonization And Primitive Accumulation Of Capital -- Women Under Colonialism -- Women Under German Colonialism -- White Women In Africa -- Housewifization. Maria Mies. Previous Ed.: 1986. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Women's social status, womens rights, international division of labour, capitalist country, socialist country, developing country - womens organization, trends, historical, USA and Western Europe, cultural factors, political aspects, woman workers, capitalism, feudalism, sexual division of labour, labour productivity, colonialism, economic role, homemakers, production relations, violence, China, India, Viet Nam, case studies. Bibliography, statistical tables 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. The Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) is perhaps the most controversial, as well as the most far-reaching of the new social movements: the ecology movement, the alternative movement, the peace movement, and others.