Women Take Issue: Aspects of Womens Subordination

First published in 2006. Women Take Issue draws on collective and individual research by members of the Womens Studies Group at the Centre. It concentrates on the problems of analysing womens subordination in Britain.The book opens with a retrospective article which comes to grips with the problem of doing feminist intellectual work through the experience of the Womens Studies Group. This is followed by an analysis of some aspects of the early womens movement. In the third section economic approaches to the basis of womens oppression are examined for their usefulness and limitations.

The second half of the book includes articles on:

• The culture of teenage girls











• Young working class women at home











• Woman - the problem of femininity as constructed in this magazine











• Womens reproductive role through class and history











• Anthropology











• Women, kinship structures and family.

This combination of theoretical work and contemporary case studies engages constructively with the traditions of cultural analysis from a feminist perspective, and contributes to the study of womens situation in Britain.