Socialist feminism


Socialist feminism rose in the 1960s and 1970s as an offshoot of the feminist movement and New Left that focuses upon the interconnectivity of the patriarchy and capitalism. However, the ways in which women’s private, domestic, and public roles in society has been conceptualized, or thought about, can be traced back to Mary Wollstonecraft‘s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) and William Thompson‘s utopian socialist work in the 1800s. Ideas about overcoming the patriarchy by coming together in female groups to talk about personal problems stem from Carol Hanisch. This was done in an essay in 1969 which later coined the term ‘the personal is political.’ This was also the time that second wave feminism started to surface which is really when socialist feminism kicked off. Socialist feminists argue that liberation can only be achieved by working to end both the economic and cultural sources of women’s oppression. 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. Socialist feminists reject radical feminism’s main claim that patriarchy is the only, or primary, source of oppression of women. Rather, Socialist feminists assert that women are oppressed due to their financial dependence on males. Women are subjects to male domination within capitalism due to an uneven balance in wealth. … In 1972, ‘Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women’s Movement‘, which is believed to be the first publication to use the term socialist feminism, was published by the Hyde Park Chapter of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union (Heather Booth, Day Creamer, Susan Davis, Deb Dobbin, Robin Kaufman, and Tobey Klass). …”
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Jacobin: What Is Socialist Feminism? By Barbara Ehrenreich
Jacobin: The Promise of Socialist Feminism
Socialist Feminism in the era of Trump and Weinstein
Verso: A Socialist Feminist Reading List
Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women’s Movement By Hyde Park Chapter, Chicago Women’s Liberation Union etc.

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