Feminist Viewpoint, By Nancy Hartsock
Nancy Hartsock theorizes that feminist standpoint is established in Marxist ideology. She argued that out of the experience of Marx understanding, a feminist standpoint could be built and used to criticize patriarchal theories. Thereby making a feminist standpoint important in the process of examining the systemic oppressions in a society.
Hartsock maintains that since the life of women contrasts intrinsically to those of men, (as the owners’ lives contrasts with the workers’ lives) a foundation for feminist standpoint may be provided by the structure of women’s activities just as a foundation for a proletarian standpoint is provided by the structure of worker’s activities.
The “standpoint” Hartsock had in mind in this writing is not simply …show more content…
“Yet, one cannot dismiss the substitution of life for death as simply false” (pg. 326). Men constructs social associations in their own form, so women too must partake in social affairs that depicts abstract masculinity: - depreciation of women's effort - construction of women's effort so that it annihilates minds and bodies - separation of women from one another in domestic work - female suffering of forfeiture of self in provision and service to others - suppression of all this underneath layers of ideology
4. Necessity for struggle, tussle and scrutiny in order to accomplish and attain the feminist standpoint.
5. The feminist standpoint is a foundation for getting past these relations, on the way to a problem-free social combination: - Capitalism should support the proletariat and help promote the likelihood of a society exclusive of class dominance. - Feminism should facilitate women to raise the prospect of society that has no forms of domination.
The essential thing is "the generalization of the potentiality made available by the activity of women--the defining of society as a whole as propertyless producer both of use-values and of human beings" (pg.328). What this needs is eradication of private property, confiscation of state dominance and prolonged post-revolutionary class
Hartsock maintains that since the life of women contrasts intrinsically to those of men, (as the owners’ lives contrasts with the workers’ lives) a foundation for feminist standpoint may be provided by the structure of women’s activities just as a foundation for a proletarian standpoint is provided by the structure of worker’s activities.
The “standpoint” Hartsock had in mind in this writing is not simply …show more content…
“Yet, one cannot dismiss the substitution of life for death as simply false” (pg. 326). Men constructs social associations in their own form, so women too must partake in social affairs that depicts abstract masculinity: - depreciation of women's effort - construction of women's effort so that it annihilates minds and bodies - separation of women from one another in domestic work - female suffering of forfeiture of self in provision and service to others - suppression of all this underneath layers of ideology
4. Necessity for struggle, tussle and scrutiny in order to accomplish and attain the feminist standpoint.
5. The feminist standpoint is a foundation for getting past these relations, on the way to a problem-free social combination: - Capitalism should support the proletariat and help promote the likelihood of a society exclusive of class dominance. - Feminism should facilitate women to raise the prospect of society that has no forms of domination.
The essential thing is "the generalization of the potentiality made available by the activity of women--the defining of society as a whole as propertyless producer both of use-values and of human beings" (pg.328). What this needs is eradication of private property, confiscation of state dominance and prolonged post-revolutionary class