What Did Marx Have to Say about Cooking Dinner? Marxism and gender in the twenty-first century

Future of the Past series lecture “What Did Marx Have to Say about Cooking Dinner? Marxism and gender in the twenty-first century” by Tithi Bhattacharya, professor of history and director of global studies, Purdue University. Celebrating 150th anniversary of “Das Kapital.”

Marxism is seen as a theory of class and class struggle. But can class struggle be conceived in gender neutral ways? My work explores the gender-silences in Marxism and the ways in which we can develop Marxist theory to understand the imbricated relationship between class and gender.