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The approach adopted by Christine Delphy is materialistic. This choice reflects in particular the intellectual climate of the 1970s, fertile ground for interpretation and positioning with regard to Marxism and its derived theories. Feminists struggled with far-left activists who had to demonstrate the relevance of the fight for women's rights. Liliane Kandel, in an interview with Christine Delphy, explains that it was necessary to "prove that women were not only beaten or abused, but that they were workers, just like proletarians or under-proletarians. there were internal fights on the extreme left that had to be carried out "[6] [6] Delphy, Christine," Foreword ", The Main Enemy, .... From this point of view, application of Marxist intellectual tools to the question of women could convince.
Christine Delphy sought the origin of the situation of women in the material conditions that are reserved for them: it is the material social practices that account for the patriarchal domination of women. While it is indisputable that …show more content…

But these whole areas would also be explicable by a materialistic approach:" the mode of domestic production does not [make ] not take into account other dimensions of women's subordination, especially oppression - just as material as economic exploitation - that is physical and symbolic sexual violence (linked to the fact that people are men or women) and physical violence and symbolic sexual (related to sex as an anatomical organ) "[8] [8] op.cit., Volume II .. Anything could be explained by a materialist approach? Do all the mechanisms of male domination have their roots in material

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