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.

Editor's Preface

Foreword by Paula Varela

1. Introduction to Woman Questions

2. The Earthly Family (Abridged)

3. Fine Arts and Feminism: The Awakening Consciousness

4. Class and Other Roots

5. The Contested Domain: A Note on The Family in the Transition to Capitalism

6. Questions on the Woman Question

7. Marxism and Feminism: Unhappy Marriage, Trial Separation or Something Else?

8. From the Woman Question to Women's Liberation

9. Engels's Origin: Legacy, Burden and Vision

10. Socialist Feminism

11. Telling Tales: Historians of Our Own Lives

12. Questioning Equality

13. Beyond Equality versus Difference

14. Beyond Intersectionality

15. "She Was My Kind of Scientist": Margaret Benston and the Political Economy of Women's Liberation

Acknowledgments

Index