Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 263)

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Realist Methodology and the Articulation of Modes of Production (ص 263)

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Peasant household, since the social relationships within the
household are themselves ordered hierarchically in a symbolic
order of domination and subordination based on gender, age
and kinship.
While the symbolic ordering refers to the whole gamut of the
sexual politics of male-female relationships I am only
interested in bringing out those aspects of it which underpin
the sexual division of labour in the peasant household. Thus,
while accepting the important contribution made by feminist-
materialist analysis to our understanding of the links
between patriarchy and economic exploitation, it is beyond
the scope of the present work to bring out in their entirety
the dynamics of male-female relationships in the peasant
family. (1) Rather, I will limit my comments on gender
relationships to the way they are constituted in the sexual
division of labour.
One important point which should be borne in mind is that the
male-female sexual division of iabour is not immutable and
fixed and it can and does change, and is often reconstructed
according to a multitude of factors which are largely
overdetermined and thus multifaceted and following no
preconceived logical order of determination. However, among
the elements which can lead to the reconstructing of male-
female relations within the sexual division of labour are,
e.g., the introduction of new technologies, changing land-use
patterns, proletarianisation, etc. Changes in the relations
of production and forms of exploitation can result in
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Alex Pollock

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