Materialist feminism

Materialist feminism explains gender inequality through material conditions, including labor, economic relations, and the organization of social reproduction. It analyzes how these conditions shape gendered power and everyday life.

Social reproduction: The labor and institutions that sustain people and reproduce society across generations. It names the often-unpaid work that maintains workers and social life.
Marxist feminism: A feminist tradition that uses Marxist analysis to explain women's oppression and social change. It supplied key tools for analyzing gender through class and production.
Wages for Housework: An international feminist campaign demanding wages for unpaid domestic labor. It turned the hidden economic role of housework into an explicit political demand.
Care work: Paid or unpaid work that meets the physical, emotional, and developmental needs of others. It makes visible the labor that supports households and the wider economy.
Gender division of labor: The patterned allocation of tasks and occupations by gender. It shows how economic activity is organized through gendered roles.
Friedrich Engels: A German social theorist and political writer who co-founded Marxism with Karl Marx. His account of family, private property, and women's subordination became a major point of debate.
Domestic labor debate: A Marxist feminist debate over how unpaid household work relates to capitalism and value production. Its competing accounts expose disagreements about how housework sustains capitalist production.
Reproductive labor: Work that sustains people and reproduces labor power, including care and household maintenance. The concept traces economic dependence on work often excluded from wage accounting.
Mode of production: The organization of productive forces and social relations through which a society produces its means of life. Materialist analysis situates gender relations within historically specific systems of production.
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State: Friedrich Engels's 1884 book linking the modern family and women's subordination to property and social development. Its historical account helped frame materialist explanations of women's oppression.

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