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Book Review of Femininity as alienation: Women and the family in Marxism and psychoanalysis

Femininity as alienation: Women and the family in Marxism and psychoanalysis
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There have been many attempts to fuse the Marxist and Freudian approaches but as Ann Foreman shows, in her careful exploration of Mitchell, Reich and Marcuses writings, they have failed. The existentialist approach has been more productive but it too has provided no basis for womens liberation.