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Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory

Catharine A. MacKinnon
- 01 Apr 1982 - 
- Vol. 7, Iss: 3, pp 515-544
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Work is the social process of shaping and transforming the material and social worlds, creating people as social beings as they create value It is that activity by which people become who they are Class is its structure, production its consequence, capital its congealed form as discussed by the authors.
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Sexuality is to feminism what work is to marxism: that which is most one's own, yet most taken away Marxist theory argues that society is fundamentally constructed of the relations people form as they do and make things needed to survive humanly Work is the social process of shaping and transforming the material and social worlds, creating people as social beings as they create value It is that activity by which people become who they are Class is its structure, production its consequence, capital its congealed form, and control its issue

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A manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, technology, and socialist feminism in the 1980s

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Reification and the Sociological Critique of Consciousness

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that the fundamental reification of the concrete into the abstract is a cross-cultural and historically recurrent phenomenon, and that such conversions are functional for the effective operation of an institutional system.
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The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm

Anne Koedt
TL;DR: Friedman argued that the best physical stimulant for the penis is the woman's vagina and that women should transfer the center of orgasm from the clitoris to the vagina as mentioned in this paper.