HREQ 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Marxist Feminism, Socialist Feminism, Feminist Theory
30 Nov 2014
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For most of the 1970s and 1980s debates about how social institutions promoted unequal social relations between men and women was addressed from a materialist standpoint of which there are two feminist versions. The first uses a marxist framework for analyzing the structures of social relations. Feminism, uses the concept of patriarchy, which, although borrowing much from a marxist method, does not necessarily accept the marxist analysis of prioritizing the economy. Marxist analysis of capitalism provides an explanation of how the capitalist system operates and offers a theory of how it can be overcome. In a marxist analysis, priority is given to the organization of productive work and the relations of people who engage in the production of capital. Other features of society and social organization that are exploitive are seen to be secondary to paid labour. Mode of production=means of production +social relations of production (see previous class lectures on karl marx and the mode of production)
