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The Real Dualism of Sex and Class

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  • Susan Hmmelweit

    (Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, England.)

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This paper argues that the dualism between class struggle and sex struggle, both in political practice and theoretical analysis, reflects a real separation of the struggles in current society. But that separation is not a trans-historical necessity. Rather it is a socially specific product of capitalist development, which has singled out production activities and allowed them to dominate over all other activities. But it is only within reproductive activities that sexes can be identified; hence reproduction remains an essential locus of sex struggle. The appearance that production is inherently separate from, and dominant over, reproduction has given class struggle an apparent separateness and superiority over sex struggle. But the separateness of the two struggles and predominance of production are not inevitable. Rather they are crucial aspects of what must be challenged in our society.

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  • Susan Hmmelweit, 1984. "The Real Dualism of Sex and Class," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 16(1), pages 167-183, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:16:y:1984:i:1:p:167-183
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    1. Therese Jefferson & John King, 2001. ""Never Intended to be a Theory Of Everything": Domestic Labor in Neoclassical and Marxian Economics," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(3), pages 71-101.

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