economy

• • Early socialist feminists see this as the main cause of female oppression as women are particularly exploited under capitalism.
• • Modern socialists believe the economy and society work together, with patriarchal power a key factor too.
• • All feminists want to see all women as economically independent and to see unjustifiable material inequalities end, though often disagree about how this can be best achieved from more reformist liberal views to more revolutionary socialist perspectives.
• Capitalism

  An economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit
• Socialist feminists

  Feminists who believe that women are oppressed through capitalism even more so than patriarchy
• Socialist feminists like Rowbotham believe that capitalism requires women to act as a reserve army of labour, being a low-paid and dispensable workforce
• Gilman

  Believed that women's domestic servitude allowed women to dominate the outside world
• Simone de Beauvoir

  Believed that male domination of the economy restricted women's choices
• hooks

  Believed that women living in poverty have issues that middle-class women do not face, an example of intersectionality