Abstract

NAHUEL MARTIN, Facundo. Notes for a critical theory of gender relations in capitalism. Reflexiones [online]. 2017, vol.96, n.1, pp.109-120. ISSN 1659-2859.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rr.v96i1.30636.

This paper intends to analyze the contradictory relations between capitalism and gender from the standpoint of critical social theory. Adressing Moishe Postone´s categorial reading of Marx, Roswitha Scholz´s contributions to Wertkritik and John D’Emilio’s studies, it can be claimed that capitalism holds a contradictory relation towards gender. On one side, it undermines relations of personal domination, thus enabling conditionts for a pluralization of gender relations. On the other hand, capitalist society produces a historically specific form of heterosexual patriarchy, related to the separation between production and reproduction. Regarding gender relations, capitalism creates oppresive conditions and at the same time brings about new social possibilities. This leads to the conclusion that capitalism generated new forms of gender opression, but also laid the condictions for its critique.

Keywords : Capitalism; Patriarchy; Wertkritik; Gender; Critical Theory..

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