Outline and assess Marx’s critique of ‘right’ and ‘equality’ in ‘The Critique of the Gotha Programme’.
To what extent is Engels’s argument concerning the ‘world historic defeat of the female sex’ convincing?
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Lecture
The family and sexuality.
Seminar
Reading:
The origin of the family: private property and the state – Friedrich Engels, Ernest Untermann 2001 Book Essential reading Chap. 2, Pt, 4
Background Reading:
1. The origin of the family: private property and the state – Friedrich Engels, Ernest Untermann 2001 Book Recommended reading
2. The origin of the family: private property and the state – Friedrich Engels, Ernest Untermann 2001 Book Recommended reading E. Leacock, ‘Introduction’
3. The origin of the family: private property and the state – Friedrich Engels, Ernest Untermann 2001 Book Recommended reading Michelle Barrett, ‘Introduction’
4. The woman in question: m/f – Parveen Adams, Elizabeth Cowie 1990 Book Recommended reading L. Brown, ‘The Family and Its Genealogies’
5. The woman in question: m/f – Parveen Adams, Elizabeth Cowie 1990 Book Recommended reading Beverly Brown, ‘Natural and Social Division of Labour: Engels and the Domestic Labour Debate’
6. The woman in question: m/f – Parveen Adams, Elizabeth Cowie 1990 Book Recommended reading Catherine MacKinnon, Towards a Feminist Theory of the State, ch.2.
7. Women in political theory: from ancient misogyny to contemporary feminism – Diana H. Coole 1993 Book Recommended reading ch.8
8. Engels today: a centenary appreciation – C. J. Arthur 1996 Book Recommended reading Lise Vogel, ‘Engels’s Origin: Legacy, Burden and Vision’
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