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Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory
Cover of the first edition
AuthorLise Vogel
LanguageEnglish
SeriesHistorical Materialism Book Series
SubjectMarxist feminism
PublisherRutgers University Press
Publication date1983
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages231 (1987 edition)
266 (2014 edition)
ISBN978-1-60846-340-4

Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory (1983; revised edition 2013) is a book by the sociologist Lise Vogel that is considered an important contribution to Marxist Feminism. Vogel surveys Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's comments on the causes of women's oppression, examines how socialist movements in Europe and in the United States have addressed women's oppression, and argues that women's oppression should be understood in terms of women's role in social reproduction and in particular in reproducing labor power.

Vogel writes: "This book constitutes an argument for the power of Marxism to analyze the issues that face women today in their struggle for liberation. It strongly rejects, however, the assumption made by many socialists that the classical-Marxist tradition bequeaths a more or less complete analysis of the problem of women's oppression."[1]

The book received mixed reviews at the time of publication in 1983 but is now considered a founding text of Social Reproduction Theory.[2]

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She argues that Marx's views on women's issues are inadequately under-developed, but that they contain insights that are useful for struggles against female oppression within capitalist class society and the capitalist mode of production. She argues that Marx's work on individual consumption, the value of labour-power and the industrial reserve army, provided a useful basis for further work on the issue of social reproduction.[3] In contrast, Vogel finds Engels' work defective because of its utopianism and its reliance on a dual system theory of women's oppression vs. class oppression. She acknowledges, however, that the work of Engels was very influential in socialist debates despite its theoretical weaknesses.

Vogel examines the socialist movement around the time of the Second International and the Russian Revolution in order to analyse what leading activists had to say. She critiques much of what was written as a conflation of utopianism, liberalism and dual systems theory. However, she does find that Vladimir Lenin's work and German SPD leader Clara Zetkin's work both represented much more pragmatic attempts to seriously address women's oppression and involvement in revolutionary activity.

Vogel outlines two contradictory tendencies in the socialist debate about women's oppression - one which uses a dual systems analysis and the other which is rooted in social reproduction. She argues in favour of the social reproduction approach and elaborates her own theory of women's oppression from that perspective.

References

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  1. ^ Lise Vogel, Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Towards a Unitary Theory, p. 2
  2. ^ Introduction: Mapping Social Reproduction theory by Tithi Bhattacharya in Social Reproduction Theory, Pluto Press, 2017 ed. Tithi Bhattacharya
  3. ^ Vogel, Lise (2013). Marxism and the oppression of women: toward a unitary theory. Historical materialism book series. Leiden: Brill. pp. 32-35. ISBN 978-90-04-22826-9.

Bibliography

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Books
  • Carver, Terrell (1995). "Guide to Further Reading". Karl Marx: His Life and Environment. London: Fontana Press. ISBN 0-00-686339-6.
  • Vogel, Lise; Ferguson, Susan; McNally, David (2013). Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory. Leiden: Brill Publishers. ISBN 978-9004228269.
Journals
  • Brenner, Johanna (1984). "Marxism and the oppression of women (Book Review)". Contemporary Sociology. 13.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Brown, Carol A. (1986). "Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory (Book)". Qualitative Sociology. 9 (2).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Eisenstein, Hester (1985). "Marxism and the oppression of women (Book Review)". Science & Society. 49.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Fonow, Mary Margaret (1988). "Marxism and the oppression of women (Book Review)". Signs. 13.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Fox, Bonnie J. (1985). "Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory (Book)". Canadian Journal of Sociology. 10 (3). doi:10.2307/3339980. JSTOR 3339980.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Muldoon, Jessie (2016). "A Marxist theory of women's oppression". International Socialist Review (100).
  • Pollock, Scarlet (1987). "Marxism and the oppression of women (Book Review)". Canadian Review of Sociology & Anthropology. 24 (1).  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • Zwerman, Gilda (1985). "Marxism and the oppression of women (Book Review)". American Journal of Sociology. 91 (1). doi:10.1086/228272.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
  • "Recommended reading". Choice. 21. 1984.  – via EBSCO's Academic Search Complete (subscription required)
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