Whoremaker wiki7/14/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Socialist feminists reject the Orthodox Marxist notion that class and class struggle are the only defining aspects of history and economic development. Those conditions are largely expressed through capitalist and patriarchal relations. Thus, Socialist feminists consider how the sexism and gendered division of labor of each historical era is determined by the economic system of the time. Socialist feminism draws upon many concepts found in Marxism, such as a historical materialist point of view, which means that they relate their ideas to the material and historical conditions of people's lives. Socialist feminists attempted to integrate the fight for women's liberation with the struggle against other oppressive systems based on race, class, sexual orientation, or economic status. Further, Socialist feminists see women's liberation as a necessary part of a larger quest for social, economic, and political justice. They see economic dependence as the driving force of women's subjugation to men. Women are subjects to male domination within capitalism due to an uneven balance in wealth. Rather, Socialist feminists assert that women are oppressed due to their financial dependence on males. Socialist feminists reject radical feminism's main claim that patriarchy is the only, or primary, source of oppression of women. Socialist feminism is a two-pronged theory that broadens Marxist feminism's argument for the role of capitalism in the oppression of women and radical feminism's theory of the role of gender and the patriarchy. Socialist feminists argue that liberation can only be achieved by working to end both the economic and cultural sources of women's oppression. This was done in an essay in 1969 which later coined the term 'the personal is political.' This was also the time that second wave feminism started to surface which is really when socialist feminism kicked off. Ideas about overcoming the patriarchy by coming together in female groups to talk about personal problems stem from Carol Hanisch. However, the ways in which women's private, domestic, and public roles in society has been conceptualized, or thought about, can be traced back to Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and William Thompson's utopian socialist work in the 1800s. Socialist feminism rose in the 1960s and 1970s as an offshoot of the feminist movement and New Left that focuses upon the interconnectivity of the patriarchy and capitalism. ![]()
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