From: LeoCasey <LeoCasey-AT-aol.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 19:08:19 EST
Subject: M-TH: Third Sexing and Androgyny


Mark:
>And what seems hardly less important, how we militate
>against third-sexing and androgyny as the emerging ideologies of
>incorporation of women into waged labour thru their conscription
>into the labour market (which my friend Doug Henwood has argued
>FOR, especially in 3rd world countries).

Doug:
>Hmm, well I like some porn (and what I don't like I don't trouble myself
>over), and I think third-sexing and androgyny are just fine, so I'm guilty
>on the first two counts. On the last, I think I've said that wage labor can
>offer women some kind of liberation from patriarchal rural social
>structures and the isolating nature of homework.

Leo:
I think that Doug is mostly right about the liberatory potential of wage labor
, given a certain social context, but I'll be damned if I can even make sense
out of how third sexing and androgyny has even a tangential relationship,
ideological or whatever, to the incorporation of women into wage labor.
Indeed, insofar as I understand the common usage of those terms, I fall into
the catgeory of third-sexer and androgynist. It appears, from the context,
that Mark wants us to infer that these are "bad things," but this gigantic
leap of logic hardly makes the case,


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