RADIKALNO FEMINISTIČKA MISAO ŠULAMIT FAJERSTON I ODNOS PREMA PRAVIMA ZASNOVANIM NA POLU: SLUČAJ ZA SAVREMENU FEMINISTIČKU REVOLUCIJU. (Croatian)

Shulamith Firestone's Radical Feminist Thought and the Relationship to Sex-Based Rights: The Case for Contemporary Feminist Revolution. (English)

MARX, Karl, 1818-1883; ENGELS, Friedrich, 1820-1895

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970) by Shulamith Firestone is one of the earliest and fundamental texts that posits the postulates of radical feminist theories within the second wave of feminism. The theory that Marx and Engels based on the historical analysis of the material reality of productive relations in class society is, for her, only one part of that reality. For Firestone, as well as for radical feminists, the basic class division is the one based on sex, and not on economic classes. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to present how Firestone, while criticizing historical materialism, expounds sex classes division as the basis of social inequalities, as well as a critique of such a stance, primarily from the perspective of biological determinism. Second, the aim of this paper is to outline, based on Shulamith Firestone theory and the criticisms addressed, the extent to which radical feminist theory is responsible for articulating the legal protection of women on the basis of sex, and what significance and influence do the theory of the sex class system has in the present moment, when part of the women's movement demands reconfirmation of women's sex-based rights. Finally, the paper will contribute to the debate as to why the postulates of radical feminist theory - the sex class system and the concept of sex-based women's rights - are relevant today, and what are the possible criticisms of such women's organizing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Delo „Dijalektika pola: Slučaj za feminističku revoluciju" (1970) autorke Šulamit Fajerston (Shulamith Firestone) predstavlja jedan od ključnih i najranijih tekstova koji postavlja postulate radikalno feminističke teorije u okviru drugog talasa feminizma. Teorija koju su Marks (Karl Marx) i Engels (Friedrich Engels) zasnovali na istorijskoj analizi materijalne stvarnosti proizvodnih odnosa u klasnom društvu za nju predstavlja samo jedan njen deo. Za Fajerston, kao i za radikalne feministkinje, osnovna klasna podela predstavlja podelu po polnim, a ne ekonomskim klasama. Cilj ovog rada jeste dvostruk: najpre, da prikaže na koji način Fajerston, kritikujući istorijski materijalizam, obrazlaže polnu podelu kao temelj društvenih nejednakosti, kao i kritiku takve postavke, prvenstveno iz ugla teze o biološkom determinizmu. Zatim, cilj ovog rada jeste da, polazeći od teorije Šulamit Fajerston, te kritika koje su joj upućene, ukaže na to u kojoj meri je radikalno feministička teorija zaslužna za artikulaciju zakonske zaštite žena na osnovu pola, te kakav značaj i uticaj teorija sistema polnih klasa ima u savremenom trenutku, kada deo ženskog pokreta zahteva potvrđivanje zasnovanosti prava žena na kategoriji pola. Naposletku, rad će dati doprinos debati o tome zašto su postulati radikalno feminističke teorije - sistem polnih klasa i koncept prava žena zasnovanih na polu - relevantni i danas, te koje su moguće kritike tako utemeljenog ženskog organizovanja. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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