![]() ![]() In 1979, at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, she founded the Women and Development programme. Since the late 1960s she has been involved with feminist activism. She is a professor of sociology at Cologne University of Applied Sciences, but retired from teaching in 1993. Maria Mies is a Marxist feminist scholar who is renowned for her theory of capitalist patriarchy, which recognizes third world women and difference. Mies’s theory of capitalist patriarchy has become even more relevant today. ![]() Tracing the social origins of the sexual division of labour, it offers a history of the related processes of colonization and ‚housewifization‘ and extends this analysis to the contemporary new international division of labour. ‚It is my thesis that this general production of life, or subsistence production – mainly performed through the non-wage labour of women and other non-wage labourers as slaves, contract workers and peasants in the colonies – constitutes the perennial basis upon which „capitalist productive labour“ can be built up and exploited.‘įirst published in 1986, Maria Mies’s progressive book was hailed as a major paradigm shift for feminist theory, and it remains a major contribution to development theory and practice today. Women in the International Division of Labour ![]()
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