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	'''Materialist feminism''' is a strand of feminist analysis and thought; see [[feminisms]].		'''Materialist feminism''' is a strand of feminist analysis and thought; see [[feminisms]].

	~~Closely tied to [[Marxist feminism]] and [[socialist feminism]], materialist feminism draws its "materialist" analysis from~~ Marxist "dialectical materialism", the ~~Hegelian~~ view that history is the story of class struggle. ~~Materialist feminism~~, ~~therefore~~, ~~examines gender from a Marxist or socialist class analysis~~,		Where Marxist dialectical materialism takes the view that history is the story of class struggle, "materialist feminism applies a materialist point of view to something materialism has ignored, i.e. the oppression of women".<ref> [[Christine Delphy]], 1984, ''[[Close to Home]], p.215''</ref>

	==~~References~~==		In "A Materialist Feminism Is Possible", [[Christine Delphy]] writes:
	* [[Christine Delphy]]~~, 1984,~~ ''[[Close to Home]]''		:The concepts used for the marxist analysis of capitalist exploitation (or ''Capital'', to simplify) cannot actually account for the exploitation of women, for the same reason that they cannot account for the exploitation of serfs, or slaves, or indentured servants, or prisoners in labour camps, or African share-croppers. The simple reason is that the concepts used to account for exploitation ''by wages'' - and it is this which is the subject of ''Capital'' - cannot account for the exploitation of the unwaged. But the concepts used in the analysis of capitalism are not the whole of marxist thought. On the contrary, they are themselves derived from more general concepts. How, otherwise, would Marx have been able to analyse non-capitalist modes of production and exploitation, such as slavery and feudalism? The concepts of ''class'' and ''exploitation'' do not come from the study of capitalism; on the contrary, they pre-exist, it, permit it, and are at the origin of the notion of capitalism in its marxist sense, i.e. as a ''particular'' system of exploitation. These more general concepts - class and exploitation - not only in no way require that sexual divisions be ignored, but on the contrary are eminently useful in ''explaining'' them. And I mean here 'explain' in the strong sense: not just in describing it, not in describing only what happens after the division exists, but in accounting for its ''genesis''.<ref>Ibid. p.158-159.</ref>


			Materialist feminism differs from [[marxist feminism]] inasmuch as it does not reduce the oppression of women to a factor of [[capitalist]] oppression, ie, to the oppression of the proletariat by the capitalists. Although women ''are'' exploited within the capitalist mode of production, researchers such as Christine Delphy have found that women are exploited within another mode of production, which is not characterised by wages.


			==Related reading==
			* [[Christine Delphy]]: ''[[Close to Home]]'' (1984), ''L'ennemi principal'' volumes 1 and 2 (1998, 2002).
	* Martha E. Giminez, [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/mar.html "Marxist Feminism / Materialist Feminism"] (1998)		* Martha E. Giminez, [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/mar.html "Marxist Feminism / Materialist Feminism"] (1998)


			== References ==
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'''Materialist feminism''' is a strand of feminist analysis and thought; see [[feminisms]].

Closely tied to [[Marxist feminism]] and [[socialist feminism]], materialist feminism draws its "materialist" analysis from Marxist "dialectical materialism", the Hegelian view that history is the story of class struggle. Materialist feminism, therefore, examines gender from a Marxist or socialist class analysis,

==References==
* [[Christine Delphy]], 1984, ''[[Close to Home]]''
* Martha E. Giminez, [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/mar.html "Marxist Feminism / Materialist Feminism"] (1998)

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	==Related reading==		==Related reading==
	* [[Christine Delphy]]: ''[[Close to Home]]'' (1984), ''L'ennemi principal'' volumes 1 and 2 (1998, ~~2002~~).		* [[Christine Delphy]]: ''[[Close to Home]]'' (1984), ''L'ennemi principal'' volumes 1 and 2 (1998, 2001).
	* Martha E. Giminez, [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/mar.html "Marxist Feminism / Materialist Feminism"] (1998)		* Martha E. Giminez, [http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/mar.html "Marxist Feminism / Materialist Feminism"] (1998)


	== References ==		== References ==

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