Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One Introduction -- Reevaluating and developing Marx for feminist theory today -- Overview of the book -- Chapter Two The Early Writings on Gender and the Family -- The 1844 Manuscripts -- Di Stefano, voluntarism and transcendence -- Overcoming hierarchical dualisms -- Naturalism and humanism -- Marx and human nature -- Labour and alienation -- Gender in the 1844 Manuscripts -- Alienation and gender -- Feminist theory and the 1844 'Manuscripts' -- 'Crude Communism', private property, and women -- Women's alienation in capitalist society -- Modes of production and the course of history -- The family and class-society -- On the 'bourgeois family' -- Alienation, bourgeois morality and suicide -- Revisiting the nature/culture and man/woman dualisms -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three Political Economy, Gender, and the 'Transformation' of the Family -- Engels's 'Principles of Communism' in relation to gender and the family -- The Communist Manifesto -- Gender and the family in 'The Communist Manifesto' -- Nature and society in Capital -- Nature and the labour-process -- Necessity and freedom -- The political economy of Capital, Volume I -- The dual nature of labour and commodities -- Feminist critiques of Marx on production and reproduction -- Production, consumption and reproduction in capitalism -- 'Productive' and 'unproductive' labour -- Gender and the family in Capital -- 'The Working Day' and 'Machinery and Large-Scale Industry' -- The effects of machinery on women -- Women and morality -- The dialectics of the struggle over the working-day -- Reprising the 'transformation' of the family in 'Capital' -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four Marx's Journalism and Political Activities -- The Preston strikes and women's labour -- The Bulwer-Lytton scandal -- Women and the First International -- Marx and the Kugelmanns.

Women and the Paris Commune -- After the Commune -- 'Critique of the Gotha Programme' -- Labour, nature, and wealth in the 'Critique of the Gotha Programme' -- 'The Programme of the Parti Ouvrier' -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five Patriarchy, Women's Oppression and Resistance: Comparing Marx and Engels on Gender and the Family in Precapitalist Societies -- Marx's notebooks and the history of Engels's The Origin of the Family -- Separating Marx from Engels -- Marx, feminism and dialectics -- Marx's notebooks in historical context -- Morgan's Ancient Society -- Marx's notes on Morgan -- The dialectics of the family -- Slavery, the patriarchal family, and monogamy -- Women's historical position and subjectivity -- Engels's Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State -- Feminist responses to 'Origin of the Family' -- Unilinearism and economic determinism -- Similarities and differences on patriarchal society and its historical significance -- Engels's uncritical acceptance of Morgan and Bachofen on women's position in clan-societies -- Comparing Marx and Engels on gender and the family -- Chapter Six The Family, the State and Property-Rights: The Dialectics of Gender and the Family in Precapitalist Societies -- Maine's Lectures on the Early History of Institutions -- Marx's notes on Maine -- The patriarchal family and the clan -- Fosterage and the ancient-Irish family -- The position of women in ancient-Irish society -- Women's property-rights in Indian society -- Suttee in Indian society -- Marx's notebooks on Ludwig Lange's Römische Alterthümer -- Class-conflict, the development of the state and the position of women -- Arrogation, Patria Potestas and women -- Marriage and Manus -- Property and inheritance-rights -- Guardianship -- Conclusion -- Chapter Seven Conclusion -- Evaluating Marx's work on gender and the family for today -- References.

Index.