Les ménagères travaillent-elles ? Marxisme et féminisme chez Simone de Beauvoir
This article aims to clarify Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with Marxism in The Second Sex by focusing on her conceptualisation of women’s work. It shows that Beauvoir believed that women’s emancipation depended on their accession to the sphere of work outside the home – the feminist revolution t...
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2024
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| Accesso online: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Riassunto: | This article aims to clarify Simone de Beauvoir’s relationship with Marxism in The Second Sex by focusing on her conceptualisation of women’s work. It shows that Beauvoir believed that women’s emancipation depended on their accession to the sphere of work outside the home – the feminist revolution then having to go hand in hand with the proletarian revolution. Taking a diversion into the theories of domestic labour of the 1970s, the article shows that this interest in women’s productive labour led Beauvoir to miss the question of reproductive labour and prevented her from thinking of domestic labour as real ‘work’. From this point of view, the analyses of The Second Sex missed out on an element that was to become central to later feminist movements, but this does not mean that they lose their relevance if we retain the importance of a phenomenological description of the experience of oppression, which must complement an objective description of the social relations of domination. |
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