From: Zeynep Tufekcioglu <zeynept-AT-turk.net>
Subject: Re: M-FEM: Enough telling off
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 21:26:09 +0300


Ok, we had a woman prime minister, who was just as macho as a man and worse.
She toadied to the army in a way unseen, she couldn't care less about what
happened to the country, to Kurds. All she wanted was money and power,
period. She was as greedy as it gets. We had only 4-5 other women deputies
in the whole parliament of 550 members. Funny kind of power/gender
structure, isn't it? Needless to say, she didn't pay any attention to any
women's issues, they worsened under her "reign". I think that it is true
that gender structures are tending to become fuzzier in higher/elite levels,
while remaining the same or worse (or improving very little) for the
lower/working classes.

Zeynep


>>By and large, however, women get in trouble either
>>way. If they adopt a masculine mode, they're often seen as castrating
>>bitches. If they stay within a feminine mode, they're seen as wimpy.
>>It's a loose-loose formula as long as the gendering persists.
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>My point is that this isn't as true as it was - that gender roles are a bit
>blurrier now than you're allowing for. Will the continuing entry of women
>into senior positions in capitalist society change capitalism, or will it
>change our notions of gender, or both?
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