By Lise Vogel
Susan Ferguson, David McNally (Introduction)
Nearly thirty years after its preliminary booklet, Marxism and the Oppression of girls is still an important contribution to the advance of an integrative conception of gender oppression below capitalism. Lise Vogel revisits classical Marxian texts, monitoring analyses of “the girl question” in socialist concept and drawing on critical theoretical different types of Marx's Capital to open up an unique theorisation of gender and the social construction and replica of fabric existence. integrated during this variation are Vogel's article, “Domestic exertions Revisited” (originally released in technology & Society in 2000) which extends and clarifies her major theoretical ideas, and a brand new creation through Susan Ferguson and David McNally situating Vogel's paintings within the trajectory of Marxist-feminist proposal during the last 40 years.
Review:
“Every booklet has its curious life-history. whereas a few leap to nice heights of luck on a wave of public acclaim, others quick plunge into obscurity. Then there are those who dwell a mostly underground life, stored alive throughout the efforts of small bands of committed fans who unfold the observe in defiance of a bigger silence. The latter is the tale of Lise Vogel’s Marxism and the Oppression of girls: towards a Unitary Theory.”
—From the recent creation by means of Sue Ferguson and David McNally
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The social impact of these shifts in the character of female labour-force participation was blunted by the intensification of the ideology emphasising women’s place in the home. Beginning in the late 1940s, a new emphasis on domesticity projected images of the happy home-maker devoting herself solely to the consumption of goods and services and to the socialisation of children in isolated nuclear-family households. Women, especially wives, were working in increasing numbers but were supposed to believe that their real identity lay in their familyroles.
39 There is thus no rate of surplus-value, here, both because these practices are not commodified (they produce use-values but not values), and because there is no direct cost-structure for capital involved. Vogel’s later correction of this point is an important clarification that readers should bear in mind when reading her text. More than this, it is a reminder of the critical-scientific spirit that informs Marxism and the Oppression of Women, and that makes it a work capable of renewal, extension, and development.
Ibid. Vogel 1983, p. 170. Introduction • xxxiii that tends to reproduce patriarchal family-forms, as it persistently has across the spaces and times of world-capitalism. Of course, here we are dealing with a tendency, not an iron law. The fact that social reproduction is, and must be, played out through embodied individuals enmeshed in the imperatives of capitalism does not mean that any and all familyforms are functionally determined. Cultural traditions and social struggles will also shape the range of available household-arrangements.