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Marx for Today: A Socialist-Feminist Reading
Brenner, Johanna
http://solidarity-us.org/atc/199/socialist-feminist-reading/Date Written: 2019-03-01 Publisher: Against the Current Year Published: 2019 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23493 In-depth look at the relationship between feminism and Marxism. Abstract: -- Excerpt: Among other things, social reproduction includes how food, clothing and shelter are made available for immediate consumption, how the maintenance and socialization of children is accomplished, how care of the elderly and infirm is provided, how adults receive social and emotional support, and how sexuality is experienced. From this starting point, we can see how gender and gender relations - such as a gender division of labor - are social, historical constructs, embedded in structures of social reproduction. Actually existing capitalist societies each have their own histories and trajectories of change, and gender relations are structured across a diverse terrain. While recognizing this complexity, socialist-feminists have drawn on Marx's work to analyze how patriarchal relations work in capitalist societies. By going back to Marx's texts, I want to highlight some aspects of this socialist-feminist theoretical framework. Subject Headings |