Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Socialist feminism

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. &mdash;Korath (Talk) 13:01, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)

Socialist feminism
The Socialist feminism entry is meaningless and redundant. It should be deleted and Marxist feminism fixed up. Corvus 21:38, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC) (Old VfD, not added to the main page.  -Sean Curtin 04:02, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC))

Marxist feminism argues that capitalism is the root cause of women's oppression. Socialist feminism argues a dualist theory (drawn from Radical feminism) that it is economic AND cultural forces which oppress women. They are two different theories. I've started to add to the Socialist feminism entry, including prominent theorists (just added Sheila Rowbottom. It is an entry that needs work, NOT deletion. Mittimus 22 Jan 2005

I think this is a relevant article. Marxism is a subset of Socialism, not all of socialism, and non-Marxist feminist socialists do exist, and I've come across them. (unsigned vote by user:146.176.2.17)

Keep: not redundant, and a worthwhile topic. -Sean Curtin 04:02, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: Different topic from Marxist feminism Preisler 04:50, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Definitely a separate topic (and is even critical of followers of traditional Marxism for failing to address the subjugation of women).  --[[User:BD2412/deletion debates|BD2412] 04:58, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 06:28, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Worthy topic.  ComCat 09:11, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Wincoote 16:47, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - this is a real thing, albeit verging on academic-cruft - David Gerard 13:53, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I would venture that academic-cruft is inherently more encyclopedic than any fan-cruft... the latter involves dissertations on fictional things (characters, hisory, ideas) and their fictional importance to a fictional universe; whereas the former involves dissertations on theories and ideas on the workings of the real world in which we live. --[[User:BD2412/deletion debates|BD2412] 20:34, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Socialist feminism is different from feminist marxism. EdwinHJ | Talk 16:27, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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