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Women and the Politics of Class, by Johanna Brenner. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2000. 330 pp. $50.00 cloth. ISBN: 1-58367-0092. $19.95 paper. ISBN: 1-58367-010-6.
This book is a collection of mostly previously published essays and articles from Brenner's long career as a Marxist-feminist thinker, socialist, and political activist. Three of the pieces are co-authored, including the wellknown article, "Gender, Social Reproduction, and Women's Self-Organization," with Barbara Laslett, from the 1991 Gender and Society.
The book is organized by substantive topic, rather than chronologically. Part One, Toward a Historical Sociology of Gender, includes three chapters. The first, "Rethinking Women's Oppression," with Maria Ramas, is a critique of Michele Barrett's Women's Oppression Today. The authors argue that Barrett did not provide sufficient material basis for women's oppression under capitalism, relying too much on the power of ideology. The second piece, mentioned above, is renamed...