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Socialist feminism is a two-pronged theory that broadens Marxist feminism's argument for the role of capitalism in the oppression of women and radical feminism's theory of the role of gender and the patriarchy.
The socialist feminism tradition is a rich offshoot of the women’s liberation struggle. Learn more about the theory and practice of socialist feminism.
Socialist feminism is a branch of feminism that gained popularity in the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s.
In the US and Western Europe, socialist feminism emphasized “patriarchy” as a power role that oppressively shaped women’s lives. For socialist feminism, patriarchy overlapped but differed from the Marxist emphasis on the primacy of capitalism and class exploitation.
Situated in a fundamentally socialist outlook, this wide-ranging set of essays and op-ed offers a rich set of topics that give the reader a clear sense of the conflicts women faced given the essentially patriarchal distribution of access to capital, wages, and opportunity in the early 20th century.
Socialist feminism rejects radical feminism's central claim that patriarchy is the sole and universal source of the oppression of women, just as it rejects Marxism's claim that class and class struggle are the only determining factors in understanding the present situation.
In philosophical feminism: Feminist social and political philosophy. …to address women’s concerns, the socialist feminists Alison Jaggar and Iris Marion Young appropriated Marxist categories, which were based on labour and economic structures. Criticizing traditional Marxism for exaggerating the importance of waged labour outside the home ...
Socialist feminism is a two-pronged theory that broadens Marxist feminism 's argument for the role of capitalism in the oppression of women and radical feminism 's theory of the role of gender and the patriarchy.
For socialist feminism, patriarchy overlapped but differed from the Marxist emphasis on the primacy of capitalism and class exploitation. Socialist feminism sought to synthesize feminist analyses of gender inequality, social reproduction and economic reproduction.
What is socialist feminism and why is it needed to fight the global rise of authoritarianism and fascism? Frieda Afary brings the insights gained through her st...