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Graham Holderness

Gender and sexuality have long held an important place in western attitudes towards the people and regions of the world—from the titillating accounts of harem life in the Middle East to terrifying captivity narratives of North America

This book sets out to clarify the nature of the aesthetic as a category within the theory of historical materialism

Building the New World attempts to redress the balance

The Rise and Decline of Patriarchal Systems keyword-free-markets of the heartWhy do patriarchal systems survive? In this groundbreaking work of feminist theory, Nancy Folbre examines the contradictory effects of capitalist development. She explains why the work of caring for others is under valued and under rewarded in today's global economy, calling attention to the organisation of childrearing, the care of other dependants, and the inheritance of assets. Upending conventional definitions of the economy based only on the