Self, Gender, Society

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Self, Gender, Society

• From Feminism to Marxism
• Some Connections

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Marxism Feminism

• Text book p. 186
• Reading and writing as material practices.
• Women engaged in unequal relations of production
  at work or at home.
• e.g. Housewife as a unpaid laborer.

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Feminism and Marxism

• Similar Concerns
• The political aspects in Text and Daily Life.
  (politicalpower relations)
• The influences dominant power (class/gender) has
  on cultural texts or ones identity.
• Textual Duality -- The political unconscious or
  conscious ways of resistance.

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Feminism and Marxism

• Different Concerns
• Gender/Woman and Class