Maria Mies is a Marxist feminist scholar who is renowned for her theory of capitalist patriarchy, which recognizes third world women and difference. She is a professor of sociology at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, but retired from teaching in 1993. Since the late 1960s she has been involved with feminist activism. In 1979, at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, she founded the Women and Development programme. Her other titles published by Zed include The Lace Makers of Narsapur (1982), Women: The Last Colony (1988), The Subsistence Perspective (1999) and Ecofeminism (2014).

Compelling. One of the most ambitious projects undertaken by a feminist scholar in recent years.

• Foreword by Silvia FedericiPreface to the critique influence change editionIntroduction1. What is Feminism?2. Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour3. Colonization and Housewifization4. Housewifization International: Women and the International Division of Labour5. Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Capital6. National Liberation and Women's Liberation7. Towards a Feminist Perspective of a New Society

Maria Mies is a Marxist feminist scholar who is renowned for her theory of capitalist patriarchy, which recognizes third world women and difference. She is a professor of sociology at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, but retired from teaching in 1993. Since the late 1960s she has been involved with feminist activism. In 1979, at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, she founded the Women and Development programme. Her other titles published by Zed include The Lace Makers of Narsapur (1982), Women: The Last Colony (1988), The Subsistence Perspective (1999) and Ecofeminism (2014).

Compelling. One of the most ambitious projects undertaken by a feminist scholar in recent years.

• Foreword by Silvia FedericiPreface to the critique influence change editionIntroduction1. What is Feminism?2. Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour3. Colonization and Housewifization4. Housewifization International: Women and the International Division of Labour5. Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Capital6. National Liberation and Women's Liberation7. Towards a Feminist Perspective of a New Society

Maria Mies is a Marxist feminist scholar who is renowned for her theory of capitalist patriarchy, which recognizes third world women and difference. She is a professor of sociology at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, but retired from teaching in 1993. Since the late 1960s she has been involved with feminist activism. In 1979, at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, she founded the Women and Development programme. Her other titles published by Zed include The Lace Makers of Narsapur (1982), Women: The Last Colony (1988), The Subsistence Perspective (1999) and Ecofeminism (2014).

Compelling. One of the most ambitious projects undertaken by a feminist scholar in recent years.

• Foreword by Silvia FedericiPreface to the critique influence change editionIntroduction1. What is Feminism?2. Social Origins of the Sexual Division of Labour3. Colonization and Housewifization4. Housewifization International: Women and the International Division of Labour5. Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Primitive Accumulation of Capital6. National Liberation and Women's Liberation7. Towards a Feminist Perspective of a New Society