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capitalism and feminism, the writer has chosen one of Modern Sociology theories, it is Socialist Feminism.
2.4.1 Socialist Feminism
It is said that the project of socialist feminism theory is developed for three aims: first, to gain distinctive and related critics towards patriarchy and capitalism in
terms of woman experience; second, to develop explicit and affordable method for social analysis from developed historical materialism understanding; the last one
is to unify understandings towards ideal significance through materialism analysis
for human problem determination. Ritzer and Goodman, 2007:436
Based on the book of Teori Sosiologi Modern page 441, it is stated that in the framework of the general theory, socialist feminism can be divided into three
different emphasize. First, materialism feminist that emphasizes and sticks gender relation in the structure of contemporary capitalist class system, in particular, the
system which is eligible generally. The desire of materialism feminists is in the implication from global capitalism for women life and the way women labor gives
contributions for additional capitalism properties. Second, it emphasizes contemporary socialist feminism at the relations of ruling. This relates to
interdependent control system. The control arrangement dynamics is explained through the focus at the women daily activities and experiences. The last
emphasize is cultural materialism that focuses on the body, descriptions, meaning and happiness, and politics as the effort of a group and social category to appear.
Theorists of this feminism more focus on patriarchy structure, capitalism, racism, and heterosexism. Theory of Socialist Feminism that will cover about
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capitalism will relate to Classical Marxian theory at the method of historical materialism.
In addition to explanation above, other feminist anthropologists have argued that other variables in addition to womens role in production are keys to
understanding womens social status and power Leghorn and Parker 1981. Other feminists argue that womens housework is part of the social reproduction of
capitalism Vogel 1995. That the necessary work of reproducing the working class is unpaid allows more profits to capitalists. It is the sexual division of labor
in productive and reproductive work that makes woman unequal to men and allows capitalists to exploit womens unpaid labor. Some even make this analysis
the basis for a demand for wages for housework Federici 1975 Moreover, Hochchild 2000 points out that career women tend to pay
working class women to do the second shift work at home so they can avoid that extra work, and they have an interest in keeping such wages, e.g., for house
cleaning and nannies, as low as possible to keep the surplus for themselves. Kollias 1981 argues further that working class women are in a stronger political
position to work effectively for womens liberation than middle class women, while McKenny 1981 argues that professional women have to overcome myths
of professionalism that keep them feeling superior to working class women and hence unable to learn from or work with them for social change
Since the topic of the study focuses on capitalism and feminism, then the writer would like to see how the social relationship or influences of them.
Therefore, the writer uses sociology theory that discusses human social
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relationship, in particular Socialist feminism as this theory has the aim at discussing capitalism and women experience, in which the experience here relates
to the job. In other words, the writer uses socialist feminism to underlie theory that will discuss capitalism and feminism in a relationship underlying the study.
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