POL 4180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Proletarianization, Marxist Feminism, Liberal Feminism
19 Oct 2016
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Kollontai"s traditional marxist feminism causes of women"s oppression, Hartmann"s challenge agreements and tensions with kollontai; conception of transition from capitalism to communism, role of and dissolution of the nuclear family patriarchy and its relation to capitalism; strategies for creating feminist change. Political figure in russia; influences her writing. In many ways, her approach is outdated and lacks intersectionality. She views economic power inbalances as the root issue and patriarchy as a manifestation of that inequality, whereas other feminists would inverse this comparison. Base = means of production (tools, machines, factories, land, raw materials) and relations of production (lumpen-proletariat, proletariat, labour aristocracy, petty- Superstructure = everything not directly to do with production (art, family, culture, religion, philosophy, ideology, law, media, politics, science, education, etc. ) This moves in a spiral pattern; the base is generally dominant. Strengths of the family before the advance of capitalism:
