Woman's Estate

Description

Scrutinizing the political background of the movement, its sources and its common ground with other radical movements of the sixties, Women's Estate describes the organization of women's liberation in Western Europe and America, locating the areas of women's oppression in four key areas- work, reproduction, sexuality and the socialization of children. Through a detailed study of the modern family and a reevaluation of Freud's work in this field, Mitchell paints a detailed picture of how patriarchy works as a social order.

Reviews

 The quality of Mitchell's thinking is revealed by her ability both to be critical of certain aspects of the women's movement, and yet keep herself free of the bitterness and disillusion of radicals of an older generation * Richard Sennett, New York Review of Books *
Juliet Mitchell's brilliant book from 1970 knew in advance that movements of liberation are linked, that economic analysis alone cannot fully * Judith Butler, author of Who's Afraid of Gender? *

Author description

Juliet Mitchell is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Gender Studies at the University Cambridge. She is the author of Psychoanalysis and Feminism, Siblings: Sex and Violence, and Mad Men and Medusas.