Feminist and Marxist Criticism: An Argument for Alliances

Authors

Gayle Greene, Scripps CollegeFollow

Document Type

Article

Department

English (Scripps)

Publication Date

1981

Disciplines

English Language and Literature | Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Abstract

The fact that the new wave of feminism of the late sixties and early seventies has given rise, in the late seventies and early eighties, to a new literary critical approach - "feminist literary criticism" - bears out, in itself, a Marxist analysis of the relation of political base to ideological superstructure. Feminists begin from, or quickly arrive at, some such sense of this relationship, since the very process of becoming a feminist is one of perceiving the connection between the personal and the political, of coming to an understanding of the social dimensions of consciousness.

Comments

Brief excerpt of content is used in lieu of an abstract.

Rights Information

© 1981 Taylor and Francis

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DOI

10.1080/00497878.1981.9978553

Recommended Citation

Greene, Gayle, “Feminist and Marxist Criticism: An Argument for Alliances,” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 9, no. 1 (Spring 1982), pp. 29-45. doi: 10.1080/00497878.1981.9978553