Lise Vogel is a unique voice in feminist theory. This book collects her best essays, opening a window into the last half century of US socialist feminism.
A trailblazer in the 1970s, Vogel planted the seeds for contemporary Social Reproduction Theory with her ‘unitary theory’ of exploitation and the oppression of women. Along with others, she challenged established views within the academy and movement by insisting that Marxist theory can accommodate not only class, but also race and gender. Today her work is more popular than ever, inspiring socialist feminists to develop inclusive liberatory ideas for the next generation.
Collecting five decades of Vogel’s work, including long out-of-print material, this collection is a crucial resource for readers interested in the intellectual history of Marxist-feminism and twentieth-century activism.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
Foreword by Paula Varela
Preface to the Second Edition by Kirstin Munro
Preface to the First Edition
I. Historians of Our Own Lives
1. Introduction, 1995
2. Red, 2025
3. Luigi, 2025
II. Questions on the Woman Question
4. Fine arts and feminism: The awakening consciousness, 1974
5. Erotica, the Academy, and Art Publishing: A Review of Woman as Sex Object: Studies in
Erotic Art, 1976
6. Questions on the Woman Question, 1979
7. Socialist Feminism, 1989
8. “She was my kind of scientist”: Margaret Benston and the Political Economy of Women’s
Liberation, 2019
III. Feminism and Marxist Theory
9. The Earthly Family, 1973
10. The Contested Domain: A Note on the Family in the Transition to Capitalism, 1978
11. Marxism and Feminism: Unhappy Marriage, Trial Separation or Something Else, 1981
12. Feminist Scholarship: The Impact of Marxism, 1986
13. Engels’ Origin: Legacy, Burden and Vision, 1996
14. From the Woman Question to Women’s Liberation, 1983
IV. Difference, Diversity and Equality
15. Class and Other Roots, 1976
16. Telling Tales: Historians of Our Own Lives, 1990
17. Beyond Equality: Some Feminist Questions, 1993
18. Considering Difference: The Case of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 1995
19. Beyond Intersectionality, 2018
About the author
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.
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