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*Extracts from Engels "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", 1884.
The first session's objective is to bring together Marxism and feminism in a dialogue from where we can build a common analytical basis for understanding the oppression and exploitation of women. To this end, we will discuss these, and other, questions: accumulation through dispossession; the sexual and international division of labour; the crises of citizens and families as institutions; the way in which patriarchal capitalism has reproduced these structures in all spheres of life through past centuries.  


"According to the materialistic conception, the determining factor in history is, in the final instance, the production and reproduction of the immediate essentials of life. This, again, is of a twofold character. On the one side, the production of the means of existence, of articles of food and clothing, dwellings, and of the tools necessary for that production; on the other side, the production of human beings themselves, the propagation of the species. The social organization under which the people of a particular historical epoch and a particular country live is determined by both kinds of production: by the stage of development of labor on the one hand and of the family on the other."
A second session will provide a broader view from an intersectional perspective in order to study how the disciplines of gender and sexuality operate. Here, we will discuss the various ways differential oppressions manifest themselves along axes of race, class, gender, sex, and others.  


Preface to the First Edition, 1884
The closing session will allow for a review of major women's and feminist movements, a description of their distinctive currents, and an assessment of the series of mobilizations of the past two years.


"Thus when monogamous marriage first makes its appearance in history, it is not as the reconciliation of man and woman, still less as the highest form of such a reconciliation. Quite the contrary. Monogamous marriage comes on the scene as the subjugation of the one sex by the other; it announces a struggle between the sexes unknown throughout the whole previous prehistoric period. In an old unpublished manuscript, written by Marx and myself in 1846, [The reference here is to the German Ideology, published after Engels’ death – Ed.] I find the words: “The first division of labor is that between man and woman for the propagation of children.” And today I can add: The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male."
Readings:  


II. The Family, 4. The Monogamous Family
[[Outline for the first session]]


"The modern individual family is founded on the open or concealed domestic slavery of the wife, and modern society is a mass composed of these individual families as its molecules. In the great majority of cases today, at least in the possessing classes, the husband is obliged to earn a living and support his family, and that in itself gives him a position of supremacy, without any need for special legal titles and privileges. Within the family he is the bourgeois and the wife represents the proletariat."
[[Intersectionality and international perspective of feminist movement, Tatiana Montella – Youth Camp 2017]]


* [http://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article95 Stephanie Treillet "Women’s oppression in globalization"]
[http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article40563 Cinzia Arruzza, Penelope Duggan, March 8, 2017, Worldwide: “Feminists are currently leading the way”]


* [http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article2407 What is ecofeminism? Interview with Yayo Herrero]
Excerpts from Cinzia Aruzza's Dangerous Liasons [https://4edu.info/images/a/a8/Dangerous_liasons_selection_%28ENG%29.pdf]

Latest revision as of 08:55, 18 August 2017

The first session's objective is to bring together Marxism and feminism in a dialogue from where we can build a common analytical basis for understanding the oppression and exploitation of women. To this end, we will discuss these, and other, questions: accumulation through dispossession; the sexual and international division of labour; the crises of citizens and families as institutions; the way in which patriarchal capitalism has reproduced these structures in all spheres of life through past centuries.

A second session will provide a broader view from an intersectional perspective in order to study how the disciplines of gender and sexuality operate. Here, we will discuss the various ways differential oppressions manifest themselves along axes of race, class, gender, sex, and others.

The closing session will allow for a review of major women's and feminist movements, a description of their distinctive currents, and an assessment of the series of mobilizations of the past two years.

Readings:

Outline for the first session

Intersectionality and international perspective of feminist movement, Tatiana Montella – Youth Camp 2017

Cinzia Arruzza, Penelope Duggan, March 8, 2017, Worldwide: “Feminists are currently leading the way”

Excerpts from Cinzia Aruzza's Dangerous Liasons [1]

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