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Marxist Feminism

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📚 Books 4

Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
Marxist Feminism Capitalism Critique Economic Empowerment +2

Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser (2019)

Critiques elite feminism and proposes an anti-capitalist feminist vision, linking women's liberation to economic justice, racial equality, and environmental sustainability.

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📄 Papers 6

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An Overview on the Feminism and Its Categories

Haradhan Kumar Mohajan

This paper offers a comprehensive overview of feminism’s historical development, ideological foundations, and categorical variants. Mohajan traces the evolution of feminist thought from early movements to contemporary debates, highlighting key challenges and future directions for global gender justice.

Feminism Liberal Feminism Radical Feminism +3
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Indexing alternatives: Feminist development studies and global political economy

Priti Ramamurthy

This essay explores how feminism reconstructs development studies and global political economy analysis, proposing alternative theoretical frameworks for understanding the intersections of globalization, development, and gender. Ramamurthy critiques mainstream development discourse and advocates for analytical perspectives centered on social reproduction and women's agency.

Marxist Feminism Feminist Economics Development Studies +2
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Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy

Nancy Fraser

This groundbreaking 1990 essay provides a feminist critique of Habermas's theory of the public sphere. Fraser introduces the concept of 'subaltern counterpublics' to reveal the exclusionary nature of the bourgeois public sphere, arguing for the necessity of multiple publics and offering a new theoretical framework for understanding democratic participation and social justice.

Liberal Feminism Political Participation Cultural Critique +3
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The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism

Nancy C. M. Hartsock

This foundational chapter develops the concept of the feminist standpoint by integrating Marxist theory with feminist epistemology. Hartsock argues that women's experiences—particularly in domestic labor and social reproduction—offer a privileged epistemic position from which to critique dominant knowledge systems and capitalist structures.

Marxist Feminism Epistemic Colonialism Critique Domestic Labor +2
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The Traffic in Women: Notes on the 'Political Economy' of Sex

Gayle Rubin

This paper proposes the groundbreaking concept of the 'sex/gender system' to analyze the social origins of women's oppression through a critical synthesis of Marxism, structural anthropology, and psychoanalytic theory.

Marxist Feminism Patriarchy Critique Capitalism Critique +2
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Wages Against Housework

Silvia Federici

This classic Marxist feminist text reveals the truth of housework as central to capitalist relations of production. Federici argues that by naturalizing housework as women's 'labor of love,' capitalism obtains massive amounts of unpaid labor. Demanding wages for housework is not about institutionalizing this labor but about politicizing it, exposing capitalism's exploitation of women's labor.

Marxist Feminism Socialist Feminism Economic Empowerment +2

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