Knowra Socialist feminism Socialist feminism Socialist feminism analyzes women’s oppression as produced by interacting economic and social power relations, especially capitalism and patriarchy. It links feminist liberation to broader struggles against exploitation and inequality.
Social reproduction theory : An approach examining how societies renew people, labor power, and social relations across generations. It explains how unpaid care and domestic labor sustain capitalist production.
Second-wave feminism : A feminist movement beginning in the 1960s that challenged gender inequality in law, work, family, and culture. Its activism created the political setting in which socialist-feminist ideas gained force.
Clara Zetkin : A German socialist politician who organized working women and advocated international socialist feminism. Her organizing linked women’s emancipation to working-class political struggle.
Liberal feminism : A feminist tradition focused on securing equal rights and opportunities within existing institutions. It contrasts with socialist feminism’s emphasis on transforming economic and social structures.
Reproductive labor : Work that sustains people and reproduces labor power, including care, cooking, and child-rearing. It identifies the often-unpaid work that capitalist economies depend on.
Domestic labor debate : A feminist Marxist debate over how housework relates to value, wages, and capitalist production. It made household labor central to socialist-feminist accounts of exploitation.
The Personal Is Political : A feminist slogan asserting that private experiences reflect broader political structures. It helped connect household relations to economic and institutional power.
Alexandra Kollontai : A Russian revolutionary and theorist who wrote about women’s liberation, sexuality, and communal care. Her proposals connected women’s freedom to transforming family life and social provision.
Radical feminism : A feminist tradition that treats male dominance as a fundamental system of social power. Its accounts often give patriarchy greater explanatory priority than socialist feminism does.
Care work : Paid or unpaid work that supports people’s physical, emotional, and social needs. Its unequal distribution reveals how gender and class shape daily labor.
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