POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Marxist Feminism, Radical Feminism, The Communist Manifesto
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White, upper-class, cisgendered, male, bourgeois, political leader: implicit egali . , the material base of patriarchy, a marxist feminist point: Lies most fundamentally in men"s control over women"s labour power. Men maintain this control by excluding when from access to some essential productive resources (in capitalist societies, for example, jobs that pay living wages) and by restricting women"s sexuality (531: the traditional ( 50s n. am) male breadwinner ideal. Relates to [t]he services women render men, and which exonerate men from having to perform many unpleasant tasks (like cleaning toilets) (531). I. e. child-rearing and housework; often unpaid; considered women"s work. If not rendering invisible the value of women"s labour, there"s also patriarchy through restricting sexuality: the family wage idea and practice. As (still?) part of the material base of patriarchy in two ways: First, men have better jobs in the labour market and earn higher wages than women.
