This essay will discuss the meaning behind the Feminist Social Theory from various sources on definitions and explanations. Following this it will also conduct the understandings within the workings on Marxism theories and Michael Foucault. With their theories behind their own meanings and understandings on Feminism Social Theory. However, with comparison to the workings of famous Feminist sociologist, Simone de Beauvior, being well known feminist theorist and being engaged within feminist politics. A lot of the workings and theories of Marxism and Foucault will be proven unethical from various sources providing the evidence and from personal opinion. This essay will give the seemingly unknowledgeable with some help from Marxism, …show more content…
When we think of Marxist within the feminist social theory it brings that motion of a struggle towards liberation (Jenness, 1972 p. 18). Mainly on how Marx expresses how every female would be forced to reproduce as ordered (Jenness, 1972 p. 19), Marxism argues how society is fundamentally constructed of the relations people form as they do and make things needed to survive humanly (MacKinnon, 1982 p. 515). Feminist believe that Marxism is male dominated and male defined (MacKinnon, 1982 p. 518) – giving them the understand and notion that analysing society exclusively in class terms ignores the distinctive social experiences of the sexes, obscuring women 's unity (MacKinnon, 1982 p.518). To most feminist’s Marxism is full of ‘bourgeois’ (Ehrlich, 1986 p.5) but to most new socialist feminists have been trying in all manner of inventive ways to come towards a simple understanding another sociologist with an effective thought towards the Feminist Social Theory is Michael …show more content…
It has brought to the attention of various theorists like Karl Marx, Michel Foucault and famous feminist theorist Simone de Beauvior the reason as the why this essay included these theorist was to give someone the understanding of how others few the feminist social theory. Being a feminist will be known as being that women who seek for women to gain the same opportunities and privileges the society gives to men or that they assert the distinctive value of women hood against patriarchal denigration. However, with the understanding that the amount of women that have become more and more occupied into socialist feminism as a solution to the persistent problem of sexism towards that Marxism believes that the main contradiction isn’t between man and women, but the forces of production and reproduction or how Foucault doesn’t really see a gender to gender ratio but more of a male pronoun and doesn’t see that gender identities are under assault and made out to be an equality which I personally don’t believe is true. These two theorists have tried to make an understanding of how they see the feminism social theory but for feminist theorists themselves define it as being absolutely incorrect and take more pros from Simone de Beauvior and her workings within her book The Second Sex. When one thinks of the feminist theory one another might think differently on the subject but for someone to understand to full