Sexual equality & socialism.

The writer discusses sexual equality and socialism. If there is any grounds for feminism claiming a special relationship with socialism, it is to be found in the socialist critique of privacy and the way that this revealed the particular limitations of the domestic sphere to socialists. Today's so...

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Published in:Dissent (00123846) Vol. 44; pp. 28 - 39
Main Author: Phillips, Anne
Format: Article
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press Summer97
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