Christine Delphy is the subject of the second book in the series Women of Ideas . This, and succeeding volumes will: provide succinct introductions to the ideas of women who have been recognized as major theorists; make the work of major women of ideas accessible to students and those who wish to know more; appraise and reappriase the work of neglected women of ideas and give them a higher profile; and provide a full bibliography of its subject’s writings, where they are easily available. In this introduction to the work of the architect of materialist feminism, Stevi Jackson explains Delphy’s views on partiarchal exploitation, class gender and the institutionalization of feminism.