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The absence of a specific "family politics" has ceded an important political space to anti-feminist movements and weakened the capacity of the feminist movement to intervene effectively in the debates and struggles of the current period. Despite significant changes in family, domestic and interpersonal relations, the prevailing ideology of the heterosexual nuclear family as the norm still shapes social, economic and legal practices. This book ...

Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews, this book describes the work women do in their homes, caring for children and partners, and maintaining the house. It shows how their lives are shaped by domestic responsibilities and challenges the ways in which their work is neither recognised nor valued.

The book shows how spurious the distinctions are between the home as private sphere and the outside world as public, and how totally integrated housework and "household" are within political economy.

The impact of feminist thinking on contemporary knowledge is examined in this intriguing study. Emerging from the 2009 lecture series "Feminist Knowledge Reconsidered: Feminism and the Academy, " this book covers current ideas about feminism in relation to education, society, and the future potential for feminist research and teaching in the university context. Connecting early stories of women who defied their exclusion from knowledge creatio...