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Evaluate your Article: Socialist Feminism The article's content is very relevant to the topic, which includes the topic of feminism. The areas are over developed giving you every thought and aspect given in socialist feminism. The article is written neutrally, and does not show any biases. Also, each claim does have a citation and they are reliable, because it provides us with author's that are well education on feminism.

Bibliography https://www.thoughtco.com/socialist-feminism-womens-history-definition-3528988

https://www.marxists.org/subject/women/authors/ehrenreich-barbara/socialist-feminism.htm

http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/modern/THE-BASICS-OF-SOCIALIST-FEMINISM.html Add to an Article Exercise.

Socialist feminism should be seen as an ongoing project. It is alive and well today and it existed before the women’s liberation movement as well—though both now and then, not necessarily in that name.

 First Draft 10/22 

Socialist feminism rose in the 1960s and 1970s as an offshoot of the feminist movement and New Left that focuses upon the interconnectivity of the patriarchy and capitalism. Socialist feminists argue that liberation can only be achieved by working to end both the economic and cultural sources of women's oppression. Socialist feminism is a two-pronged theory that broadens Marxist feminism's argument for the role of capitalism in the oppression of women and radical feminism's theory of the role of gender and the patriarchy. Socialist feminists reject radical feminism's main claim that patriarchy is the only or primary source of oppression of women. Rather, socialist feminists assert that women are unable to be free due to their financial dependence on males. Women are subjects to the male rulers in capitalism due to an uneven balance in wealth. They see economic dependence as the driving force of women's subjugation to men. Further, socialist feminists see women's liberation as a necessary part of larger quest for social, economic and political justice. Socialist feminists attempted to integrate the fight for women's liberation with the struggle against other oppressive systems based on race, class or economic status.

Socialist feminism should be seen as an ongoing project. It is alive and well today and it existed before the women’s liberation movement as well—though both now and then, not necessarily in that name. It is also a huge controversy today, because men think women have their rights and power to do as they please. Recent Marxist-feminists, recognizing that the sexual division of labor remains alive and well, have sought to expand the categories of Marxist analysis, examining women's unpaid labor in the household as a tool of capitalism, and women's role in production and reproduction. Socialist-feminists have argued that Marxists and Marxist-feminists offer an inadequate formulation of women's situation, since they do not look specifically at the system of social relations that ensure male domination over women. At the same time, they have also been critical of. the radical feminist analysis of patriarchy, noting its ahistorical, universalistic (bordering on the biological), and idealistic tendencies. Instead, socialist-feminists insist on a materialist analysis of women's oppression.

Peer Review 10/28

 * Does the draft draw conclusions or try to convince the reader to accept one particular point of view?
 * No, the draft only has neutral statements.
 * Are there any words or phrases that don't feel neutral?
 * Yes, there is the sentence "Psychologists are the ones that really used gender with that meaning"
 * Does the draft make claims on behalf of unnamed groups or people?
 * Yes, they claim that gender and sex are not equivalent
 * Does the draft focus too much on negative or positive information?
 * Focuses too much on negative, instead of positive.
 * Are there any unsourced statements in the draft, or statements that you can't find stated in the references?
 * No.

Final Article
In 1969, a women's liberation union in Chicago generated an organization for expressing a new socialist feminist vision of society. They published a document stating the things that they envisioned in the new order, part of everyday life for all people. The document stated bullet points like: freedom to define social and sexual relationships,peoples' control over their own bodies, etc. They recognized that oppression based on sex/gender, class, race, and sexual orientation are all are interwoven. They wanted their voice to be heard and their rights to be equal to one another. Women are not meat, they are human beings! To effectively challenge any one of these forms of oppression, we must understand and challenge all of them. It was shown that 8 out of 10 women claim that they do more housework than their male partners, which does not show a great impact we hoped for in the past.Our main focuses on the issues today deal  within the workplace, in which women face challenges of job market segregation, lower wages for the same work, and sexual harassment. This brings us back to 1969, where female's are not as equally treated as males.

Socialist Feminism is not just about motherhood or working women, but about also about changing the way we value contribution and production from the shameful profit motive to social value. An example of this battle in our culture today is that child care is commoditized (if someone is caring for another person’s child). Housework is commoditized if someone is working on another person’s house. According to recent studies of The Bureau of Labor Statistics women show twice as much time spent on domestic activities in the home than men do. Another way we perceive socialist feminism in today's society is through abortion rights. Movement for women’s liberation must also insist on going beyond access to abortion in defining choice — to reproductive justice,  which includes the right to, of course, free and accessible contraception and sex education to prevent pregnancy— but also the right to choose to be a mother and raise children in safe, adequate homes. Also, another horrifying act is how President Donald Trump and Republicans have all the votes they need to make abortion illegal again in the United States. Trump apparently wants to change the environment that shows everyone praising life and being thankful to have been brought onto this world.

As time goes on and more people begin to learn of socialist feminism we are aware that we should be able to seek free men and women of all forms of oppression and restore the belief in human equality especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs of the past. We envision a highly advanced socialist society, (that involves technology,) where those who create wealth with their daily labor also make the decisions about what it should be used for, where democracy means workers’ control of the state and the economy, where protecting the planet is first priority, where production of goods is for human needs and where internationalism is practiced around everyone.

In my new article, I decided to focus on how socialist feminism is still an issue today. I researched a lot about the formation and evolution of it, but wanted to learn and understand more on how it is an issue today. I contributed to this by researching and typing up how it is very alive today. My group contributed by also researching and typing up what they found from their research.