socialist feminism , how to achieve equality

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socialist feminists focused on how

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capitalism and socialism were closely linked

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socialist feminists believed that

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a socialist revolution was necessary for gender oppression to be removed

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their vision of a society free of gendered oppression built on

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socialist visions of communal living and collectivism

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both rowbotham and Gilman advocated for

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the domestic labour to be communal

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later socialist feminisms argued that

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the removal of capitalism alone was sufficient to achieve full gender equality

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argued that societal attitudes and gender relations in the private sphere

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needed to be tackled as well as capitalism removed

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unlike earlier socialist feminists

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they didn’t believe that this would be automatically achieved by capitalism

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rowbotham called for a “revolution within a revoloution”

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that required not only restructuring the economic system to eliminate class inequality but also radically transforming social relations and institutions to eradicate gender oppression

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Gilman focused on

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societal condiitoning subtly coerced girls into becoming mothers and homemakers from a young age through toys and clothing , limited their economic independence from a young age