Marxist feminism is a philosophical variant of feminism that incorporates and extends Marxist theory. 0000019018 00000 n
0000013761 00000 n 0000011638 00000 n Marxist feminists argue that working-class women are exploited by both patriarchy and capitalism. Feminist writers and theorists have provided in-depth analysis of the underlying beliefs of feminist theory. 0000025993 00000 n In her critique of traditional Marxist feminist movements such as the Wages for Housework Campaign, More recently, many Marxist feminists have shifted their focus to the ways in which women are now potentially in worse conditions as a result of gaining access to productive labor. 0000010123 00000 n 0000031036 00000 n 0000019187 00000 n 0000020786 00000 n 0000002719 00000 n 0000023800 00000 n 0000012997 00000 n 0000027815 00000 n 0000024298 00000 n
These developments are inherently indebted to the internal critique within feminism made by ‘women of color’ who have been pivotal in raising questions of ‘difference’ around such social axes as class, racism, ethnicity, sexuality, and the problematic of global inequities. 0000015450 00000 n
xref 0000017052 00000 n Marxist feminism analyzes the ways in which women are exploited through capitalism and the individual ownership of private property. The Traditional Marxist Theory on Women's Question 1.1 The History and Exposition The Marxist theory has been used as a guiding principle for women's liberation since the later part of the nineteenth century. 0000027333 00000 n Marxist Feminism came from the ideas of Karl Marx, which were used to understand the capitalist sources of the oppression of women. 0000008659 00000 n 0000024775 00000 n
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0000017355 00000 n Engels 1972 argues that as early human communities became more agrarian—as the institution of private property became more and more bound to inheritance—women’s capacity for both domestic and sexual … In Other Marxist feminist have noted the concept of domestic work for women internationally and the role it plays in buttressing global Another solution proposed by Marxist feminists is to liberate women from their forced connection to reproductive labor. 0000013460 00000 n
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0000020189 00000 n 0000026805 00000 n 0000029527 00000 n 0000026990 00000 n 0000012674 00000 n 0000028369 00000 n Certainly not the woman worker.Marxist feminist critiques of other branches of feminismMarxist feminist critiques of other branches of feminism
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Marxist Feminism.
They try to make people understand that housework and child care is still "real work".
Marxist theory develops in part because people need more than political instinct to steer by when they want to improve their situation. 0000028834 00000 n 0000026566 00000 n In her book Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End (compare prices), Sara M. Evans explains how socialist feminism and other branches of feminism developed as part of the women's liberation movement. Although not explicitly defined as feminist, among the key early influences on Marxist/socialist feminism is Engels 1972 (originally published in 1884). 0000010850 00000 n trailer 0000019484 00000 n 0000022056 00000 n The idea of compensating reproductive labor was present in the writing of socialists such as Perhaps the most influential effort to compensate reproductive labor was the Many Marxist feminist scholars, in the vein of an analyzing modes of oppression at the site of production, note the effect that housework has on women in a capitalist system. 0000019707 00000 n 0000009395 00000 n 0000005405 00000 n 0000015935 00000 n 0000000016 00000 n 0000002654 00000 n
Marxist see the male domination as the one who provides capitalism to the family while the woman will eventually stay at home to raise the children and supply of labour. 0000011875 00000 n 0000017595 00000 n
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