9, Amaterialist feminism és possible* “The first issue of Feminie Revice (January 1978) contained a revi Ta RGAS Dy two Begun wetogay, Michele Bare ad fay ‘Melatosh. I seplied to this three issues later and sought to show, fist, the various ways in whic’ they had misrepresented what I had written; second, what think he cones of fens rom shold bes aad hird, and mest imporant, the various ways in which Barret Melton fname migoncrve martina, Tt not ecco in this collection to include the first part ofthe article, since the collection itself makes the relevent articles available in English, bat the latter two parts are significant decause they expose the widespread theoretical Echizophrenia of the left on the subject of women’s oppression. The contradictory analyses Barrett and Mcintosh produce are due, T believe, toa desperate desire vo ontins to exempr men from responsiblity fo ‘the oppression of women. - ve 2 Mantism misunderstood: abused and used Barrett and McIntosh’s articl sts ON a SET i Mencsh’s article rests on a set of attinudes which are common in intellectual circles: = ae 1 areligious attitude to the writings of Manx; 2 an aseron that mario conrutes a whole which one mos tke v leaves 3. a confusion between the materialist method, used for the first time by Marx, and the analsis of capitalism whi je rather the reduction of the first wore ‘second; ees 4 aconfusioa, voluntarily perpetuated, between these two things and Aversion of thir onkie appears in Femixis Rese, ao 41980) A materialist feminism is possible “185 Cc the interpretation which ‘marsist” sects make of contemporary society; and $a presentation of this triple confusion as the whole (to be taken or Jef) of ‘smanxism’, which is in its turm not only presented asa science, tbavas The Science having all the characteristics ofthis pure essence: in particular, neutrality and universality ‘The religious attitude builds Manx into an object of study in himself. ‘