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[[History of Gender and Sexuality Syllabi]]
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# Marxist/Socialist Feminism
**Kowalsky 2017, HIST597, Readings in Gender History**
- Engel, _Between the Fields and the City_ OR Canning, _Languages of Labor and Gender_
- Alice Kessler-Harris, “Treating the Male as ‘Other’: Redefining the Parameters of Labor History,”
- _Labor History_ 34, no. 2/3 (Spring/Summer 1993): 190-204.
**Ferguson 2012, WST692꞉ History of Feminist Theory**
- Selections from Marx _Communist Manifesto_ and _Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts_
- Engels _Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State_, selections
- Flax “Do Feminists Need Marxism?”
- Benston “Political Economy of Women’s Liberation” Federici _Caliban and the Witch_, ch. 2 (Pt. I and II)
- _Optional:_
- Miller “Occupy, Connect, Create” (anarcho-socialist vision of creating the commons) Schmitt _Introduction to Marx and Engels,_ ch 5, 7-10.
- Tong _Feminist Thought_ ch 3
- Barrett “Capitalism and Women’s Liberation”, in Nicholson text. Delphy and Leonard _Familiar Exploitation_, ch 2 and 3
- Zweig “The Working Class Majority”
- Colin Farrelly “Patriarchy and Historical Materialism”, _Hypatia_, v. 26, no. 1
- Hennessy “Reclaiming Marxist Feminism for a Need-Based Politics”, in Holmstrom ed _The Socialist Feminist Project_
**Sadjadi 2015, MCLS230꞉ Feminist Theory**
- Friedrich Engels, “Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State,” The Essential Feminist Reader (ed.) Estelle Freedman, Modern Library: 2007, 104-11. [E]
- Alexander Kollontai, “Working Woman and Mother,” 1914 [R1:132]
- Heidi Hartmann, “The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism” 1981 [R2: 187]
- Nancy Hartsock. The Feminist Standpoint: Toward a Specific Feminist Historical Materialism. 1983. [E]
**Hagemann 2018, HIST730꞉ Feminist and Gender Theory for Historians**
- Laura L. Frader, “Labor History after the Gender Turn: Transatlantic Cross Currents and Research Agendas,“ _International Labor and Working Class History_ 63, no. 1 (2003): 21-31.
- Kessler-Harris, Alice, “Gender and Work: Possibilities for a Global, Historical Overview,” in _Women’s History in Global Perspective_, ed. Bonnie G. Smith, vol. 1 (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004), 229-275
- Alice Kessler-Harris_, Gendering Labor History_ (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007).
- Davidoff, Leonore and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780-1850 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
- Rose, Sonya O. “Gender at Work: Sex, Class and Industrial Capitalism.“ In: _History Workshop Journal_ 21, no. 1 (1986): 113-131.
- Rose, Sonya O. _Limited Livelihoods: Gender and Class in nineteenth-century England_. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.
**Vasey 2012, PHIL220꞉ Introduction to Feminism**
- Karl Marx, Communist Manifesto. Part I A Abs 2. Part II B Abs 2.
**Phillips-Garrett 2016, PHILXXX꞉ Introduction to Feminist Philosophy Syllabus**
- bell hooks, “Class Struggle” in _Feminism is For Everybody_; Rosemary Hennessy, “Class”