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Ass. 2 Karla Flores

Silvia Federici acknowledges the relationship between class and gender to political status, to be a very unjust one. She talks about the enclosures, where people were getting their land taken away. People had worked in those lands for a living, but with the enclosures it turned their lives around. Workers were not getting wages in the proper manner that they should’ve. But people did not keep their arms crossed. Even women took it into their own hands to try to bring some justice for all.

For women it was more significant, for them it was their only means of an income. The enclosure brought the value of women down, by taking away laws that protected their rights to protest. They were tring to silenece women so they would not be able to take jobs “for” men. Women were left with no option but to go to being the typical mothers. It was again, a way of oppressing the power women have when they come together. The goal was to degrade women, as an effort to get some control back. Men knew that if all doors were closed for women, they would have to become completely dependent on the abilities of the men. With the development of capitalism, everyone had to fight for what they wanted. Nothing was to be shared equally into everyone, women had analyzed this and decided to work for themselves to be independent. But with the enclosure women were obligated to follow whatever the men wanted. Any image that they had built in the period before, was now being taken away. Categorizing women of the weaker sex amd therefore could get the same treatment in the job as mem did. But in reality, they were being exploited by these men and helping them get to where they wanted to be which is very ironic.