Rotative ol tlall experience. Because marxists tend to conceive on 2 Impact of male dominance is concretely uncovered and analy from the proletariat. They are parasites of the parasites of the social tiutnugi: the collective speaking of women,'s experience, from the body. "8 Her symp thies lay with"proletarian women "who derive their cht to vote from being"productive for society like the men. "3 With a her own perspective, L.uxemb e'lesstss, lirsI and last, ias concrete and externally imposed, they believe defends womens suffrage on class grounds, although in both cases the lh it lluist be concretely and externally undone to be changed. Wom ote wouild have benefited women without regard to class tlis Powerlessness has been found through consciousness raising to be lothe ilized and externally imposed, so that, for Women as women, across ciass distinctions and apart from nature, my is identity to women as well as desirability to men. The feminist were simply unthinkable to Luxemburg, as to most marxists. Feminist t oicept ol consciousness and its place in social order and change emerge heory asks marxism: what is class for women? Luxemburg, again like Irom this practical analytic. What marxism conceives as change in con- Mill in her own context, subliminally recognizes that women derive their class position, with concomitant privileges and restriction a form of social change in itself. For fer out because women's oppression is not just in the head, feminist con- Associations with men. For a feminist, this may explain why they do not just in the head either. But the pain, isolation, and Inite against male dominance, but it does not explain that dominance, t hingification of women who have been u rous from being no- which cuts across class lines even as it takes forms peculiar to classes What distinguishes the bourgeois woman from her domestic servant is bxorly for so long"7--is difficult for the materially deprived to see as a form that the latter is paid (if barely), while the former is kept (if con gently). But is this a difference in social productivity or only in its pression, particularly for women whom no man has ever dices, indices which themselves may be products of women,'s under Marxism, similarly, has not just been misunderstood. Marxist theory alued status? U Luxemburg sees that the bourgeois woman of her time s raditional led to compre 8. Rost I.uxehuIrg, Womens Suffrage and Class Struggle, "in Selece in class Terns pect, sex parallels race and nation as an un- digested lout persistently salient challenge to the exclusivity-or ev primacy-of class as social explanation. Marxists typically extend class to ly accurate suspicion that they do may have cover women, a division and submersion that, to feminism, is inadequate suffrage as much as any principled view of divergent and common ex nce. In 1912 Rosa luxer rg, for example, addressed a group of women on the issue of suf- 10. This question is most productively explored in the controversy over wages for frage: Most of these bourgeois women who act like lionesses in the work. See Margaret Ber struggle against'male prerogatives'would trot like docile lambs in the ve and clerical reaction if they had the suffrage. In deed, they would certainly be a good deal more reactionary than the prefessions. the bourgeoisie do not take part in social production. They ( July 1971), pp 92-100; andI M I at ne It. I I uranuS. I'I+" s anel P* ee tive, "Qur: A Feminist QUarter 2, ler Capitalism. "New Lyft Rewind 83(January- ll,y chiliren and tMs little neans to car m or herself in"The Pill; Genocide oIe."The Housewife and Her lal 3-24; I ilx rain: in Tr Binck I'uunH: du nthodugy, eL. To Auveri an library. 1970). P. 168. By using her phrase in altered context, I do i 9(May-June 197): 11-19: Nicole Cox and Sylvia Federici, Counter-Planning fre g nudes differ. (Thus, it is very different to lady, but neither is"somebody"by male Che es Dne (Bristol: Falling Wall Press, 1975): Jeanette Silveira, The Housewife or, 1975)(pam available fre lating the particularity of Ingber and Cley any woinalni's experience. Whenever this fails, the stalement is simply wrong and will have ry-February 1975):47- t le qualified or the aspiration (or abandoned Modern Times Group. "The Social Faciory. "Falling IVa Review, no, 5(1976), Pp. 1-7