The domestic labor issue, since its emergence in the 1960s, has posed a series of fundamental challenges to Marxism’s sole focus on class oppression. Feminists, especially Radical feminists, accuse of Marxist feminism explaining away the oppression of woman in terms of class analysis, and thus overlooking patriarchy as the root cause of women’s oppression. On the other hand, Socialist feminism tries to reconcile Radical feminism and Marxist feminism by positing social structure as capitalist patriarchy. In this thesis, I have stated in detail the debate among feminists and defended Marxist feminism.
