Socialist Register 1983 Preface

Abstract

This is the twentieth issue of the Socialist Register and this volume follows the pattern of its predecessors in tackling issues of major significance for socialist theory and practice. The first two essays, one by Dorothy Smith and the other by Varda Burstyn, present different approaches to the 'theorisation' of feminism from a socialist and Marxist perspective. The issues raised here have been forced on to the socialist agenda by the feminist movement and are of the greatest importance for all socialists; and we hope that we shall be able to pursue the discussion begun here in further volumes of the Register.