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：2
页码：10
语种：English
出版社：The Romanian Society for Feminist Analyses AnA
摘要：When socialist feminists discussed the potential and pitfalls of Marxism in the “domestic labor debate”, the specific relationship between patriarchy and capital emerged as a defining concern. The debate, however, was highly abstract and theoretical, and most of its historical concern revolved around the formation of the “family wage” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This discussion was certainly important, but it often arose from (and reinforced) a misleading conflation of industrialism and capitalism.Thus, while socialist feminists engaged with orthodox Marxism on a variety of terrains, they largely left to one side the question of capitalism’s origins. The two works reviewed here — Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch and Wally Seccombe’s A Millennium of Family Change — are among the very few which strive to challenge and revise existing Marxist accounts of “the transition” by posing feminist questions and offering feminist insights. In pointing to such factors as the sexual division of labor, social reproduction, the control of women’s bodies and reproductive power, and the dynamic influence of family forms, Federici and Seccombe highlight processes which must occupy a prominent place in any materialist treatment.
