GENERAL PROSTITUTION: WOMEN AS A COMMON GOOD IN MARXISM AND FEMINISM
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https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v9i4.39496Keywords:
Community of women, exchange of women, Marx, marxism, Engels gender, feminism, Kate Millet, Firestone, MacKinnon, Federici, Wittig, Davis, prostitution, sexuality, sex, sex work.Abstract
We start from the marxist concept "community of women" and the levistraussian "exchange of women" to see in them a strategy of similar basis, which speaks of women as a common good. We try to clarify under what modes of sociability, ideological dissimulation and seduction, the woman enters, as an object in the logic of the gift and the counter-gift, more than in the purely commercial, as a production good. From this explanation, certain features of the sexual experience of women (although also of men) appear alienated in a general prostitution, more or less unconscious, under which, it is not recognized, however, as a worker or as a subject of pleasure and enjoyment. Accompanied by radical, poststructuralist and postcolonial feminism, we will keep track of this circumstance and its consequences.
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