Gender Equality

doi:10.1017/9781316338902.012

11 - Gender Equality

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 May 2020

Heather A. Brown

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Marcello Musto

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Marcello Musto: Affiliation:
York University, Toronto

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The complex relationship between gender and class is one that will need to be addressed in order to improve the situation of women everywhere. After efforts in the 1970s and 1980s to adapt and integrate Karl Marx’s economics and methodology into feminist theorizing, feminist critics of Marx seem to have won the debate arguing that Marx has little to nothing to offer. A number of these studies have correctly evaluated many of the limitations of socialist feminism and its attempts to synthesize Marxism and feminism. This is especially true in regards to critiques of essentialism, ethnocentrism, and earlier Marxist feminism’s largely uncritical acceptance of economic determinism.

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Type: Chapter
Information: The Marx Revival
Key Concepts and New Critical Interpretations
, pp. 197 - 211

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316338902.012 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2020

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