MARXIST FEMINIST DIALECTICS FOR THE 21ST-CENTURY

Marxist dialectics contain several features that can help feminist the orists gain a better understanding of social life. First, Marxist dial ectics call for the development of alternatives to Enlightenment accou nts of what is to count as truth or knowledge. Second, Marx's work pro vides materials for a more nuanced and socially embedded understanding of subjectivity and agency than is available from either contemporary liberal theories or post-structuralist theories. And third, the under standing of the relation between knowledge and power present in Marx's work provides important criteria for what can count as better, or pri vileged, knowledges.