Assignment 04: feminism and marxism
In the Caliban and the witch, Silvia Frederici talks bout the connection between capitalism and feminism. There are many conflicts between industrial development and women’s society status. Marx measuring few points that are limited social position of women, and cause reason of racism. The industry market need more labor and bodywork, it put female in a struggle situation. Also, the weakness of physical factors put them into natural reproduction. In the other hand, the diversity of working environment caused “Primitive Accumulation”. People who have more labor power and wealth control the slave market. The economic market divide people into different status, European, African, man and women. The degradation is developing when the land privatization and price revolution.
In other ways, Silvia Frederici argue the political system and agricultural, people built more agricultural productivity and increase the food supply. It causes larger population growth during the eighteenth Europe. It also means women has less chance to get the education and opportunity to working or to be succeed. They are more likely live in a natural environment, became housekeeping and dependency. The military system also created at that time, women do not have chance too involved any political action and economic control during fifteenth century. Feminism is destroyed by the capitalism and maxims, the society did not accept to have own opinion and behavior. By the way, the women lost their own properties, violence from male and the ability of pregnancies. Degradation is explored when the industry is burning. Development of separation of workers and landlords, the dependency of wages and food markets. We realized the female has unfair wages or employment in market, different social status determines what kinds of jobs they have. There are many factors affect the industry world is developing, the women lost control of childbirth because of population’s growth. The society control of women and they most likely became a producer in seventeenth century.
In conclusion, the degradation is developing by the Marxism and capitalism. Most women lost power and social status during that that. They were becoming a birth tools or lower class in Europe and American. The labor market caused white men or landowners have total power to controlling the market.
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