User:Oimoikosti/Materialist feminism

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"Materialist feminism highlights capitalism and patriarchy as a central aspect in understanding women's oppression." *After this*

It focuses on the material, or physical, aspects that define opression.

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"Material feminism partly originated from the work of French feminists, particularly Christine Delphy." *After this*

At the time of the coining of the term, Delphy was actually criticized by other feminists. Since Materialist feminism was so close to Marxism, but did not actually submit to Marxist text; many other's saw this branch as unnecessary due to not being Marxist enough. However, after the 1980's, most modern feminism began to branch away from focusing on physical oppression and instead started to focus more on the language of opression.

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Relation to modern times

(Materialist feminism in the 21st century)?

There was a cultural turn during the 90's that moved to push the boundaries of what the category of "woman" was. As feminism became post-feminism, the notion of femininity was "problematized, rather than taken as a given" as told by Stevi Jackson. As feminists stopped seeing women as a social hierarchy and instead a sexual division, the concept of materialist feminism began to fade further and further away. Similarly, as discourse turned to the specifics of what defined a woman, the roles and physical oppressions they faced became of less importance. This was partly due to the notion that feminism had achieved what it set out to do. That women got the equality, and now it was time to focus on intersectionality.