Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Early feminist thought -- 2 Liberalism and beyond: mainstream feminism in the mid-nineteenth century -- 3 The contribution of Marx and Engels -- 4 Mainstream feminism: the vote and after, 1880s-1939 -- 5 Socialist feminism in Britain and the United States -- 6 Marxist feminism in Germany -- 7 Marxist feminism in Russia -- 8 Feminism after the Second World War -- 9 Liberalism and beyond: feminism and equal rights from the 1960s -- 10 Radical feminism and the concept of patriarchy -- 11 Patriarchy and private life: the family, reproduction and sexuality -- 12 Patriarchy: the public sphere -- 13 Marxist and socialist feminism from the 1960s -- 14 Black and postmodern feminisms -- 15 Feminist theory in the twenty-first century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.