"I hope to explore the underlying conception of gender that Natalie deploys and develops in her Contrapoints videos, in order to provide a materialist critique of this theory of gender. First, I will look to several of Natalie’s videos in order to try to explicitly outline her conception of gender. Second, I will offer a materialist criticism of this conception that highlights Natalie’s silence on the economic and political function of gender in a patriarchal and capitalist society. In doing so, I will try to explain why this misconception of gender results in the problems and conceptual errors that plague The Aesthetic."
Interesting article. I feel like I don't understand enough about Marxist feminism's take on gender before capitalism. Surely issues of social reproduction and domestic roles existed in, say, Ancient Athens? I need to read more...
Somebody on chapo (was it you?) linked her anti-manifesto on gender nihilism too, I think that's also a good read
Maybe this other Alyson essay will interest you.
It did! I think she relies too much on Federici though. I've read some critiques of Caliban and the Witch as hugely overestimating the extent of the witch trials (though tbf I haven't studied either side of the arguments in depth).