Item #017040 A Socialist/Feminist View of the Capitalist Organization of Production. Kathryn Johnson, Peggy Somers, Margaret.

A Socialist/Feminist View of the Capitalist Organization of Production

Berkeley: New American Movement, 1972. Wraps. Good. Item #017040

Side stapled wraps. 6 pages plus cover. A summary of a longer work originally written by Johnson and Somers, titled "The Political Economy of Sexism, or Behind Every Sexist Stands the Boss." This paper was adopted as the platform for socialist feminism by the New American Movement (a group where Somers and Johnson were founding members). NAM, founded in 1971, was a feminist and socialist organization. The summary here discusses the role of family in capitalist production, analyzing the role of women in that system, both as "workers" in the home (whether caregiving for the family or other aspects) and as workers in a labor system outside the home. Johnson and Somers highlight the differences between the two, including women's isolation in the home, and how this affects any means of systemic change or reform. Kathryn Johnson is a long time activist in feminism, education reform and socialism, participating in the first conference on women's liberation at UC Berkeley, helping to found NAM, serving in various organizations relating to women's health and many other groups (Love, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, p. 237). Margaret Somers was a feminist activist in the Santa Cruz and Berkeley area of California. She organized the first statewide feminist conference in California in 1969, "Bread and Roses." She has also been a professor of sociology and history at the University of Michigan (currently emerita). GOOD condition. Moderate to heavy toning. No rear cover, perhaps as issued. Old price at the upper right front cover. Minor curling at the corners.

Price: $75.00