%0 Journal Article
%T Patriarchy as a Product of History, or a Word on Eleanor B. Leacock Intersectional Marxist Feminism
%A Kufliński, Mateusz
%J Teoria Polityki
%V Early View 2024
%N Nr 9/2024

%K feminism, marxism, Eleanor Leacock, intersectionality, capitalism, primitive communism, alienation, patriarchy
%@ 2543-7046
%D 2024
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/teoria-polityki/article/patriarchat-jako-produkt-historii-czyli-slowo-o-intersekcjonalnym-feminizmie-marksistowskim-eleanor-b-leacock
%X Eleanor Burke Leacock was an American feminist and Marxist anthropologist who defended Lewis H. Morgan’s hypothesis of primitive communism. To this end, Leacock s research was inspired primarily by Engels’ The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State, and confirmed her hypothesis that patriarchy has nothing to do with human nature but is a consequence of changes within the relations of production.  Taking this observation as her baseline, the anthropologist proposed an intersectional feminist program in the Marxist tradition. The paper is an attempt to reconstruct: 1) Leacock’s perspective on the genesis of patriarchy and its relationship to the capitalist mode of production, and 2) a diagnosis and proposition for social change; as well as capturing the relationship that exists between the two, the relationship between history and actuality.