| Preface to new edition | vii |
| Foreword | 1 |
| 1. | What is Feminism? | 6 |
| Where are we today? | 6 |
| Fair-weather Feminism? | 14 |
| What is New About Feminism? Continuities and Discontinuities | 18 |
| Continuities: Women's Liberation - A Cultural Affair? | 18 |
| Discontinuities: Body Politics | 24 |
| Discontinuities: A New Concept of Politics | 28 |
| Discontinuities: Women's Work | 31 |
| Concepts | 35 |
| Exploitation or Oppression/Subordination? | 36 |
| Capitalist-Patriarchy | 37 |
| Overdeveloped-Underdeveloped Societies | 39 |
| Autonomy | 40 |
| 2. | Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour | 44 |
| The Search for Origins Within a Feminist Perspective | 44 |
| Biased Concepts | 44 |
| Suggested Approach | 47 |
| Appropriation of Nature by Women and Men | 49 |
| Women's/Men's Appropriation of Their Own Bodies | 52 |
| Women's and Men's Object-Relation to Nature | 53 |
| Men's Object-Relation to Nature | 56 |
| Female Productivity as the Precondition of Male Productivity | 58 |
| The Myth of Man-the-Hunter | 58 |
| Women's Tools, Men's Tools | 61 |
| 'Man-the-Hunter' under Feudalism and Capitalism | 66 |
| 3. | Colonization and Housewifization | 74 |
| The Dialectics of 'Progress and Retrogression' | 74 |
| Subordination of Women, Nature and Colonies: The underground of capitalist patriarchy or civilised society | 77 |
| The Persecution of the Witches and the Rise of Modern Society. Women's productive record at the end of the Middle Ages | 78 |
| The Subordination and Breaking of the Female Body: Torture | 82 |
| Burning of Witches, Primitive Accumulation of Capital, and the Rise of Modern Science | 83 |
| Colonization and Primitive Accumulation of Capital | 88 |
| Women under Colonialism | 90 |
| Women under German Colonialism | 97 |
| White Women in Africa | 100 |
| Housewifization | 100 |
| 4. | Housewifization International: Women and the New International Division of Labour | 112 |
| International Capital Rediscovers Third World Women | 112 |
| Why Women? | 116 |
| Women as 'Breeders' and Consumers | 120 |
| Linkages: Some Examples | 127 |
| Conclusion | 142 |
| 5. | Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Capital | 145 |
| Dowry-Murders | 146 |
| Amniocentesis and 'Femicide' | 151 |
| Rape | 153 |
| Analysis | 157 |
| Are men rapists by nature? | 162 |
| Conclusion | 168 |
| 6. | National Liberation and Women's Liberation | 175 |
| Women in the 'Dual Economy' | 180 |
| The Soviet Union | 180 |
| China | 181 |
| Vietnam | 188 |
| Why are women mobilized for the national liberation struggle? | 194 |
| Why are women 'pushed back' again after the liberation struggle? | 196 |
| Theoretical blind-alleys | 199 |
| 7. | Towards a Feminist Perspective of a New Society | 205 |
| The case for a middle-class feminist movement | 205 |
| Basic Principles and Concepts | 209 |
| Towards a feminist concept of labour | 216 |
| An alternative economy | 219 |
| Intermediate steps | 224 |
| Autonomy over consumption | 225 |
| Autonomy over production | 228 |
| Struggles for human dignity | 229 |
| Bibliography | 236 |
| Index | 247 |
Format: Paperback, 2nd ed., 256 pages
