Biography of martha gimenez

↩ Karl Marx, preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy(1859; repr., New York: International, 1970), 21.

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↩In 1957, the year I entered law school at the University of Córdoba in Argentina, to pursue becoming a lawyer was not an unusual choice. I grew up encouraged to believe there were no limits to wha...

↩Of course, in capitalist social formations, many working-class women did both, particularly women belonging to racial or ethnic minorities or to some immigrant populations. The historically specif...

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Books for changing the world

Marx, Women, and Capitalist Social Reproduction

Marxist Feminist Essays

by Martha E.

Giménez

In Marx, Women and Capitalist Social Reproduction, Martha E. Giménez offers a distinctive perspective on social reproduction which posits that the relations of production determine the relations of social reproduction, and which links the effects of class exploitation and location to forms of oppression predominantly theorised in terms of identity.

Grounding her analysis in Marx's theory and methodology, Giménez examines the relationship between class, reproduction and the oppression of women in different contexts such as the reproduction of labour power, domestic labour, feminisation of poverty, and reproductive technologies.

Because most people, whether members of dominant or oppressed groups, are working class, she argues that the future of feminist politics is inextricably tied to class politics and the fate of capitalism.