Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-) is an American author, political activist, and democratic socialist. Ehrenreich believes that socialist feminism is a term that can begin to express all of our concerns in a way that simply “socialist” and “feminist” could not. She then goes on to explain the historical and theoretical meanings behind Marxism and feminism, seeing a similarity in that “both analyses compel us to look at a fundamental injustice” (Ehrenreich 5). But this blanket term leads to concern in that it creates an aura of sectarianism. Regardless of the flaws of the term, Ehredich believes that it recognizes the cultural and social totality of capitalism while acknowledging the different settings and forms that oppression of women take.