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| Woman’s Evolution and The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State now available in Indonesian. |
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The first Indonesian edition of Woman’s Evolution by Evelyn Reed has just been published by Kalyanamitra, the Women’s Communication and Education Centre in Jakarta, Indonesia. The book is part of a two-volume set that also includes The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State, by Frederick Engels. The two books present a Marxist explanation of how modern women came to be the oppressed sex with the rise of class divided society several thousand years ago.
The back cover of the book describes Kalyanamitra as a women’s organization that works with others to “establish a social movement capable of liberating women from all forms of violence, ignorance, poverty, and underdevelopment in order to create social and gender justice, and a democratic society in Indonesia.”
In Woman’s Evolution, first published in English more than 35 years ago, Reed provides a scientific examination of how women came to be and will cease being the “second sex”, and offers fresh insights on the struggle against women’s oppression and for the liberation of humanity. Reed refutes the myth that “human nature” is to blame for the wars, greed, and inequalities of class-divided societies. Woman’s Evolution has been translated into Spanish, French, Turkish, Farsi and Swedish. The Indonesian edition includes a preface by Mary-Alice Waters, who serves as Evelyn Reed’s literary executor. For Waters’s preface,
click here.
In The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, first published in 1884, Engels explains how these institutions are the product of specific economic and social conditions. He shows how the oppression of women as a sex begins with the development of private property and how the development of the modern working class creates the material basis to end that oppression.
The two-volume set is available from Pathfinder for $35.
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