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Class Struggle on the Home Front

Work, Conflict, and Exploitation in the Household

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  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Graham Cassano

    1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Oakland University, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction: Method(s), Narrative, and Scientific “Truth”

    1. Introduction: Method(s), Narrative, and Scientific “Truth”

      • Graham Cassano
      Pages 1-15

  3. The Overdetermination of Household Class Struggles

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. For Every Knight in Shining Armor, There’s a Castle Waiting to be Cleaned: A Marxist-Feminist Analysis of the Household

      • Harriet Fraad, Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff
      Pages 19-70

    3. Connecting Sex to Class

      • Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff
      Pages 71-85

    4. The Class Analysis of Households Extended: Children, Fathers, and Family Budgets

      • Stephen Resnick, Richard Wolff
      Pages 86-115

    5. Starving and Hungry: Anorexia Nervosa and the Female Body Politic

      • Harriet Fraad
      Pages 116-136

    6. Toiling in the Field of Emotion

      • Harriet Fraad
      Pages 137-151

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 264-314
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Home/Front examines the gendered exploitation of labor in the household from a postmodern Marxian perspective. The authors of this volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power, domination, and exploitation in the modern household.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Oakland University, USA

    Graham Cassano

About the editor

GRAHAM CASSANO is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oakland University, USA. He studies social inequality, symbolic exploitation, and the representation of political economy in the mass media. His essays have appeared in a number of interdisciplinary critical journals, including Critical Sociology, Rethinking Marxism, The Journal of Economic Issues, and Left History.

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