ENMESHING CLASS, GENDER, AND ETHNICITY OF "FAMILY" IN SELECTED FICTION BY WOMEN WRITERS.
In a Marxist framework, class struggle is prioritized while gender struggle is only secondary. This debate on class over gender priority and vice versa has dominated Anglo-American critical scholarship. Meanwhile, in Asia, Mao Zedong claims that China's Cultural Revolution has freed women from both...
| Publicado en: | Kritika Kultura no. 35; pp. 44 - 72 |
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