The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism
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 class, race, and gender. Today, her work is more popular than ever, inspiring socialist feminists to develop inclusive, liberatory ideas for the next generation.

This compilation combines five decades of Vogel's work, including long-out-of-print material. It is a crucial resource for readers interested in the intellectual history of Marxist feminism and twentieth-century activism.
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The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism
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 class, race, and gender. Today, her work is more popular than ever, inspiring socialist feminists to develop inclusive, liberatory ideas for the next generation.

This compilation combines five decades of Vogel's work, including long-out-of-print material. It is a crucial resource for readers interested in the intellectual history of Marxist feminism and twentieth-century activism.
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The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism

The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism

The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism

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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 class, race, and gender. Today, her work is more popular than ever, inspiring socialist feminists to develop inclusive, liberatory ideas for the next generation.

This compilation combines five decades of Vogel's work, including long-out-of-print material. It is a crucial resource for readers interested in the intellectual history of Marxist feminism and twentieth-century activism.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780745351391
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 11/20/2025
Series: Mapping Social Reproduction Theory
Pages: 272
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Kirstin Munro is an Assistant Professor of Economics at The New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of The Production of Everyday Life in Eco-Conscious Households: Compromise, Conflict, and Complicity.

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.

Table of Contents

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
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