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Class history of gender and agrarian capitalism

In order to offer the explanation of women’s oppression in capitalism, in this paper we will focus on the question about the origins of capitalism and thence extract specific sequences of gender history. This will directly lead us to the late 14th and early 15th century, when the capitalist mode of production initially got established in England, as proposed by Robert Brenner and Ellen Meiksins Wood. With the support of Silvia Federici and her book Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, we will argue that the gendered division of labor existed before capitalism, but was not inherited from some eternal, primordial sexual division of labor as a self-evident consequence of patriarchal social relations. Our goal is to undertake an intervention in the context of Marxist-feminist debates on the origins of capitalism and emphasize that gender is historically conditioned and shaped by structural separation of domestic labour from the productive sphere. In other words, we will suggest that construction of gender has its history, a class history.

class history ; gender ; agrarian capitalism

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