Knowra Marxist feminism Marxist feminism Marxist feminism analyzes women’s subordination through capitalism, class relations, and labor. It examines how production and social reproduction organize gendered power.
Social reproduction theory : An approach examining how societies sustain people and labor across generations through care, households, institutions, and public services. It explains how unpaid and underpaid care replenishes the labor force on which capitalist production depends.
Friedrich Engels : A German philosopher and socialist whose writings helped shape Marxism and the international workers’ movement. His account of family, private property, and women’s subordination became a foundational reference and target.
Radical feminism : A feminist tradition that explains women’s oppression primarily through patriarchy and male dominance. It gives patriarchy greater explanatory independence than many Marxist feminist accounts do.
Women in the workforce : The participation of women in paid employment, shaped by occupational segregation, caregiving, and labor-market conditions. Marxist feminist analysis traces how paid work and domestic responsibilities jointly structure women’s economic position.
Domestic labor and value : A debate about whether and how unpaid household labor creates value within Marx’s account of capitalist production. The answer affects how Marxist feminism describes housework’s relation to exploitation and accumulation.
Domestic labor debate : A feminist Marxist debate over how housework relates to capitalist production and whether it produces surplus value. Its dispute over housework’s economic function sharpens Marxist feminism’s account of women’s unpaid labor.
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State : Engels’s 1884 book linking the historical development of family structures and women’s subordination to property and class society. It supplied an influential historical argument that later Marxist feminists revised and contested.
Liberal feminism : A feminist tradition seeking gender equality through rights, legal reform, education, and access to existing institutions. Its reformist focus contrasts with Marxist feminism’s critique of capitalist social relations.
Domestic work : Unpaid or paid labor performed in and for households, including cleaning, cooking, and care. It is a central site where gendered labor sustains everyday life without necessarily receiving wages.
Dual systems theory : A feminist framework treating capitalism and patriarchy as distinct but interacting systems of oppression. It challenges explanations that derive gender hierarchy too directly from capitalist relations.
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