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Abstract
Marxist theories of gender are fundamentally concerned with analyzing the relation between class exploitation and gender inequality. Women's oppression is regarded as the product of the economic, political, and social structures of capitalism. Marxist approaches were taken up by some feminist anthropologists in the 1970s, in particular taking inspiration from Friedrich Engels's The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884), seeking evidence of gender equality in pre-class societies. Related to the 1970s discourse of universal subordination of women, Engels's approach was economic deterministic and feminist scholars who took up his work have struggled to incorporate understandings of masculinity and femininity into the application of this model. Marxist ideas inspired other approaches to the understanding of gender, in both communist and capitalist societies, with studies of communist societies bringing attention to the organization of social reproduction as the basis of gender inequality.
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