Socialist Feminism Zillah Eisenstein Summary

On the other hand, socialist feminism movement appeared in the mid-60s and 70s, it was built on connecting patriarchy to capitalism. It focuses on how capitalism was the main tool of oppression against women, it does not see patriarchy as the main threat to women. There have been several definitions of socialist feminism, I would choose Ian Buchanan’s definition in the book “A Dictionary of Critical Theory,” he defines it:
“A synthesis of radical feminism and Marxism that challenges feminism's neglect of class and the Left's neglect of gender. Socialist feminism rejects radical feminism's central claim that patriarchy is the sole and universal source of the oppression of women, just as it rejects Marxism's claim that class and class struggle are the only determining factors in understanding the present
They believe that in order to achieve equality, women must first liberate financially and break the financial supremacy of males over them. Many scholars and academics have given different explanations to socialist feminism, one of them is Zillah Eisenstein. Eisenstein is considered to be one of the first socialist feminists to explain the idea behind socialist feminism, I found her way of analyzing this system very interesting. Eisenstein makes a differentiation between capitalism and patriarchy, she sees both of them neither identical nor autonomous systems. She has another view of patriarchy, she views it as a system of political hierarchy and control, she sees it as a system that puts hierarchal relations between men and women. There have been many critiques concerning this ideology, one of them is for Alison Jaggar. Although Jaggar sees socialist feminism as a significant ideology that tackles directly the core of patriarchy, she had many concerns over it, I agree with her on those concerns, she