Les femmes et la crise du système capitaliste – Marijke Colle

Outline of the lecture

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1. Marx and Engels

- woman's emancipation through participation in productive work - the capitalist mode of production and the future of the family - the value of the (male) work force - the value of the female work force and link with domestic work - reconstruction of the family in the late 19th Century - central role of women in reproduction, family life and domestic work - women workers: double exploitation and specific oppression - the labour market is 'gendered'

   2. Ecofeminism 

- role of women in ecological struggles and in peace movements - gender and nature: essentialist view or material analysis of the reproductive role of women - the exploitation of women parallels the exploitation of nature - women's liberation and the fight for ecosocialism

   3. The autonomous women's movements

- necessity of an autonomous movement, against any form of 'stageism' - the Second International,positive and negative aspects - Kollontaï and women's organisations in and after the Russion Revolution - the second wave of feminism : from women only groups to mass campaigns - what does it mean being a feminist-socialist today? - strategic necessity of a strong autonomous women's movement