People in Socialist Feminism

Question 1

Engels

Answer 1

Women’s oppression arises out of class society because women can’t own property or inherit it.

Question 2

Sheila Rowbotham

Answer 2

women suffer from “double oppression” as workers and women. they constitute a reserve army of labour for capitalism (during war times for example)

Question 3

Juliet Mitchell

Answer 3

Women need to receive emancipation in a number of different areas: “feminist consciousness has been inadequately represented in the formation of a socialist ideology”