Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:40:29 -0400
From: "loudmouth femme" <sashadev-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: M-FEM: Leslie Feinberg


Doug:

>loudmouth femme wrote:
>
>>Well, everyone....  Leslie Feinberg, the lesbian/transgender/marxist
>>activist is coming to speak, and I'm going to be going to see hir!
>
>Interesting. Does Feinberg link sex/gender with Marxism in any 
theoretical
>or practical way? Please report!

Oh, yes indeedy sie does.  Check out hir book "Transgender Warriors".  
Sie draws a link between the origins of private property/class to the 
origins of sex/gender discrimination, and also to the beginning of an 
enforcement of binary gender.  In communal, matrilinial societies, sie 
notes, there has often been a wide range of gender expression accepted, 
but with the rise of private ownership, strict categories were enforced 
to hold fast male domination over female (and, presumably, everyone 
else.)  I find hir a very down-to-earth writer, and very practical, if 
in no other way than to inspire me te rededicate myself to the struggle.  
;')

Christine
(the Loudmouth Femme)

http://members.aol.com/misssashad/index.html

"That man over there says that women need to be
helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, 
and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody
helps me any best place. And ain't I a woman?

"Look at me! Look at my arm.  I have plowed,
I have planted and I have gathered into barns. 
And no man could head me. And ain't I a woman?

"I could work as much, and eat as much as man - 
when I could get it - and bear the lash as well!
And ain't I a woman? I have borne children and 
seen most of them sold into slavery, and when I 
cried out with a mother's grief, none but Jesus 
heard me. And ain't I a woman?" 

Sojourner Truth
(as related by Frances Gage)