Beyond Female Masochism: Memory-Work and Politics (Questions for Feminism)
By Frigga Haug.
Description
Frigga Haug, one of Germany’s best-known feminist and Marxist critics, develops here a profound challenge both to women’s oppression and to what she sees as women’s ‘collusion’ in that oppression. Rejecting the essentialism of much feminist writing today, along with the denial of subjectivity that still permeates Marxism, Haug explores the connections between Marxist theory and the emancipation of women, a project which necessarily involves, as she explains, “diverting a powerful and long-standing anger into detective work.”Under the headings of Soc...
ISBN(s)
0860913589, 9780860913580
