POLI 1100 Lecture Notes - Radical Feminism, Socialist Feminism, The Communist Manifesto
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Ideologies- women as political power (friedan"s last big theme) Heidi hartman and (marxist) socialist feminism ( the unhappy marriage of marxism and feminism, 1981) Trying to join marxism and feminism together. Drawing on the tradition of marxism because she thinks. Not saying that oppression to women is exclusive in capitalist societies; but inequalities take specific forms in capitalist society. Marxists have often analyzed the status of women (the woman. Question ), but have often focused on class oppression and not sexism per se (e. g. , communist manifesto ). Hh: the categories of marxism are sex-blind (527). The woman question: traditional marxist analysis is limited in this respect. (marxist questions the family unit). Hh says that one limitation is that marxist categories are sex-blind. She says that we need to explore how men and women relate differently/differently situated/have different access to different class positions (eg. career tracks, etc. )
