From: LeoCasey <LeoCasey-AT-aol.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 00:24:16 EST
Subject: M-TH: 1844 Manuscripts: 1844 Understanding of Gender Relations


<<The direct natural, and necessary relation of person to person is
the relation of man  to woman. In this natural species-relationship,man's
relationship to nature is immediately his relation to man, just as his
relation to man is immediately his relation to nature - his own natural 
destination. In this relationship, therefore, is sensuously manifested, 
reduced to an observable fact, the extent to which the human essence has
become nature to man, or to which nature to him has become the human
essence of man.  From this relationship on can therefore judge man's whole
level of development. >>

Quoting scripture, are we? Well, I am afraid that this passage just points out
the author of the scripture was not very advanced in his understanding of the
gender relationship, with its wholesale incorporation of the man as the
carrier of culture/woman as the carrier of nature antinomy. (Do I have to
spell out the ways in which this antinomy is completely complicit in the
ideological construction of the oppression of women?) But since I am an
agnostic with respect to this particular body of  scripture, I may not be
invested in seeing it otherwise.

Leo


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