期刊名称：Analize – Journal of Gender and Feminist Studies
印刷版ISSN：1453-7559
电子版ISSN：2344-2352
出版年度：2014
期号：1729
页码：9
出版社：The Romanian Society for Feminist Analyses AnA
摘要：The social struggles associated with the New Left in the late 1960s and early 1970s sparked a popular resurgence of Marxist and feminist theory and practice. In the early phase of these struggles, many left-wing social activists regarded the two traditions as inherently compatible, and urged (or even assumed) their “marriage”. Over the following decade, however, socialist feminists noted that the marriage was at the very least “unhappy”, sparking a vigorous debate over the extent to which the “sex-blind” categories of Marxism could be utilized to address feminist concerns. This review essay assesses two foundational contributions to the debate: Heidi Hartmann’s “dual systems” theory and Iris Young’s “single system” response. While the two accounts are seemingly counter posed, a comparative analysis of their respective strengths and weaknesses points the way toward a truly historical materialist theory of women’s oppression in capitalist society. Such a theory must seek to explain the material basis for a specifically capitalist patriarchy, without employing trans-historical structures (as Hartmann does) or functionalist reasoning (as Young does). In the end, I suggest that an alternative Marxist framework can be utilized to integrate the greatest insights of both accounts, while overcoming their debilitating limitations.
