ABSTRACT
In 1979, Heidi Hartmann began her infl uential essay on Marxism and feminism with a warning:
The “marriage” of marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: marxism and feminism are one, and that one is marxism. Recent attempts to integrate marxism and feminism are unsatisfactory to us as feminists because they subsume the feminist struggle into the “larger” struggle against capital. . . . We need a healthier marriage or we need a divorce.
