The Contested Domain

Lise Vogel is a feminist sociologist from the United States. Growing up in a politically active family, she was heavily involved in the Civil Rights and women’s liberation movements. She earned doctorates from Harvard University and Brandeis University, and is best known for developing our understanding of the relationship between Marxism and feminism. She is the author of many books, including Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory.Kirstin Munro is an Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households: Compromise, Conflict, and Complicity.Paula Varela is a Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Buenos Aires and CONICET in Argentina in the areas of working-class studies and gender studies.

• Editor’s PrefaceForeword by Paula Varela1. Introduction to Woman Questions2. The Earthly Family (Abridged)3. Fine Arts and Feminism: The Awakening Consciousness4. Class and Other Roots5. The Contested Domain: A Note on The Family in the Transition to Capitalism6. Questions on the Woman Question7. Marxism and Feminism: Unhappy Marriage, Trial Separation or Something Else?8. From the Woman Question to Women’s Liberation9. Engels’s Origin: Legacy, Burden and Vision10. Socialist Feminism11. Telling Tales: Historians of Our Own Lives12. Questioning Equality13. Beyond Equality versus Difference14. Beyond Intersectionality15. “She Was My Kind of Scientist”: Margaret Benston and the Political Economy of Women’s LiberationAcknowledgmentsIndex

'Drawing on Marxist theory and integrating a feminist perspective, Vogel offers a compelling critique of bourgeois society and women’s oppression—a critique that not only advances theory, but also engages deeply with the historical and political conditions of social transformation'