This is a form of relational class analysis that describes a class in terms of its relationship to an institution. Radical feminism has adapted this theory. By this, she means that radical feminism embraces many aspects of Marxism but rejects its insistence that economic status, not gender, is the salient political factor that determines a class. An example of surplus labor in radical feminism would be housework that is unsalaried. But the element of gender is added.
Men wield the free market and other institutions as a means to control women.
The law must act to benefit historically disadvantaged woman at the expense of historically oppressive man . This class analysis makes no sense within the theoretical framework of ifeminism that declares all human beings to have the same political interests. Namely, the recognition of self-ownership. Nevertheless, individualism has a long tradition of class analysis that does categorize people according to a salient political factor. Another key difference between radical and ifeminist class analysis is that the latter does not predict the behavior of individuals.