Women's employment and the capitalist family Book

	Preface
	Introduction	1
	Overview	1
	Beyond the domestic labour debate	10
1	On Patriarchy	22
	Introduction	22
	Gender blindness and ahistorical analysis	28
	Restructuring patriarchy theory	38
	Concluding remarks	44
2	Women and the Labour-Market	45
	Introduction	45
	The unhappy marriage of patriarchy and segmented labour-market theory	47
	The presumed primitive exclusion of women	56
	Women as a reserve army of labour	66
	Occupational segregation	70
	Economics and women's employment	86
3	Gender and Access to the Means of Production	99
	Introduction	99
	Structure, simultaneity, process and contingency	100
	Periodising the family: its formal subordination	114
	The real subordination of the family to capitalism	133
	The social subordination of the family	142
4	Women and the British Labour-Market	152
	The three 'lows' and women's employment	152
	Concluding remarks	166
	Appendix: Reviewing the domestic labour debate	169
	Notes	192
	References	213
	Name index	240
	Subject index	243