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Marxist Feminism Efforts to Eradicate Sexist Capitalism

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Marxist Feminism Efforts to Eradicate sexist Capitalism:
The emergence of Stay-at-Home-Dads and The Providing Woman

Introduction:
Marxist feminism is a sub-category of the larger feminist theory; this kind of feminism is primarily attentive to explaining how women are oppressed through capitalist systems and the emergence of the concept of private property. According to Marxist feminists, women's true emancipation, all over the world, can only be achieved through a fundamental reorganization of the capitalist economy that does not fairly compensate women's labor. Additionally, Marxist feminists do criticize Marx for what they think was his partial analysis of sexism under capitalism and total indifference to gender imbalance. However, they do not dismiss the basic Marxist fundamentals.

Theoretical and Historical Backgrounds:
In its early days, the Women's Liberation Movement, four main currents of feminism were identified :
- Liberal feminism, which is mainly concerned with solving all social problems to fight ignorance and social restraints on freedom of choice for everyone, not just woman.
- Radical feminism which focuses on male patriarchy as the main cause of the oppression of women.
- Socialist feminism which believes in a dual-system, indeed it focuses on both the public and private spheres and claims that woman freedom can only be achieved by working to end economic and cultural foundations of women's domination.
- Marxist feminism, on the other hand is a

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