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Classic analysis of gender relations and patriarchy under capitalism

Close to Home is the classic study of family, patriarchal ideologies, and the politics and strategy of women´s liberation. On the table in this forceful and provocative debate are questions of whether men can be feminists, whether "bourgeois" and heterosexual women are retrogressive members of the women´s movement, and how best to struggle against the multiple oppressions women endure.

Rachel Hills´s foreword to this new edition explores how Christine Delphy´s analysis of marriage as the institution behind the exploitation of unpaid women´s labor is as radical and relevant today as it ever was.

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"France´s most exciting feminist writer."
-Simone de Beauvoir

"Christine Delphy´s writing is accessible, powerful and funny."
-Sylvie Tissot

"She writes with an extraordinarily clear-eyed passion ... Delphy´s words are persuasive."
- Daily Telegraph

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Christine Delphy is a French writer, sociologist, and theorist. She cofounded Nouvelles questions féministes and is the author of Separate and Dominate . Described by Simone de Beauvoir as France´s most exciting feminist writer, Delphy is a central figure in French feminism and one of the first to focus on the structural importance of the family in understanding women´s oppression.

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