Christine Delphy

Towards a Materialist Feminism

Bibliographic Data

ID4746231
AuthorsMichèle Barrett, Mary Mcintosh
Year1979
Issue1
Pages95
Publication date1979-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueFeminist Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-7789 • E-ISSN: 1466-4380
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1394753
OpenAlexW4249995260
LanguageEN
Citations received45
References cited4

One of the most crucial questions currently faced by feminist analysis must surely be that of the relationship of the domestic economy to the oppression of women. It is an issue that raises many problems to which we have as yet only unsatisfactory answers. What is the material basis of the oppression of women? What is the class position of women? How does the situation of women differ from that of other oppressed groups? In Britain there has been a curious reluctance to take up these issues in an explicit and theoretical way. We have had, it is true, the 'domestic labour debate', a highly specialized discussion of the role of women's housework in capitalist production and a dispute about whether it can be said, in marxist terms, to contribute to the production of 'surplus value' (for useful discussions of this debate, see Himmelweit and Mohun, 1977; Bland et al., 1978). But, hoping for a more general treatment of the material basis of women's oppression, many in this country have turned to the work of Christine Delphy, a French feminist sociologist

Class analysis · Epistemology · Feminism · Human sexuality · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Value (mathematics) · Anthropology · Cultural Studies · Employment and Welfare Studies · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Philosophy · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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