The article titled "The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism" by Heidi Hartman was very difficult for me to understand, but here is what I think that it is about. Hartman states that in order to understand the role of women, we must use the historical and materialist methods of Marxism and the social structure of patriarchy within feminism. Both feminism and Marxism have their downfalls. In the article, she argues that early marxism is drawing women into the workforce, contemporary Marxists see women as simply reproducing the capitalist system, and the idea that completing housework creates value for a capitalist society. She explains that the characteristics of men and a capitalist society are very similar which promotes the idea of dominant
