Family : Marxist Feminists AO3

• Marxist Feminism

  -Fails to explain women’s subordination in non capitalist society. As women’s subordination is also found in non capitalist societies so it cannot be said that gender subordination exists just to serve capitalism.
• Marxist Feminists

  -they claim that domestic labour benefits capitalism but they can’t explain why it’s women and not men who perform it. Hartmann argues this is because Marxism is ‘sex-blind’
• Marxist Feminism

  -overlooks the fact that patriarchy exists. It implies that once capitalism is abolished, gender inequality will disappear. According to Ellwood, in the communist Soviet Union women could fly to the moon and still have to do the ironing when they got home.