Marx, Women, and Capitalist Social Reproduction
Subtitle: Marxist-Feminist Essays
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9789004278936
Subjects: Women and socialism; Working class; Labor economics; Sex discrimination against women; Feminism; Women's rights
Description: In Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction, Martha E. Gimenez offers a distinctive perspective on social reproduction which posits that the relations of production determine the relations of social reproduction, and links the effects of class exploitation and location to forms of oppression predominantly theorised in terms of identity. Grounding her analysis on Marx's theory and methodology, Gimenez examines the relationship between class, reproduction and the oppression of women in different contexts such as the reproduction of labour power, domestic labour, feminisation of poverty, and reproductive technologies. Because most women and men, whether members of dominant or oppressed groups, are working class, she argues that the future of feminist politics is inextricably tied to class politics and the fate of capitalism.