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This important new book creates new terms for thinking about gender and generational relationships. In so doing it recasts conventional understandings of the family as an institution for organizing labour and consumption.
Delphy and Leonard present their wide-ranging theoretical discussion alongside a comparative study of the family in urban and rural areas. Theoretical innovation is consistently matched by empirical analysis of the family in diverse settings.
Christine Delphy
Christine Delphy is a French writer, sociologist, and theorist. She cofounded Nouvelles questions f�ministes and is the author of Separate and Dominate and Close to Home. Described by Simone de Beauvoir as France's most exciting feminist writer, Delphy is a central figure in French feminism and one of the first to focus on the structural importance of the family in understanding women's oppression.
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