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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 13:58:36 -0500 (EST)
From: wesley david cecil <wcecil-AT-ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Marxist Feminism


Thanks for the post.  I agree that patriarchial relations and 
capitalist/class relations are different but overlapping power systems 
that often, although perhaps not always, reinforce each other.  On this 
line I think it is interesting that the continued expansion of captialism 
has undermined first the extended family and now the nuclear family thus 
rewriting the "private" social space of the exploitation of women's 
domestic labor(by eliminating the domestic). To my mind this is what the 
far right is complaining about with the decline of the family argument.  
 I am also interested in how we account for the relative levels of power 
shared amongst people of all classes races so that Gene Kirkpatrick has a 
lot more power as a well educated wealthy woman than many middle class 
white males, who for their part have more power than middle class women, 
and so on til we bottom out probably in the Saudi and Egyptian household 
slave markets in which phillipino, malaysian and other impoverished young 
boys and girls are sold into manual and sexual servitude.  In other 
words, how do we account for the huge range of power differences that are 
inflected by  class/race/gender?

Wes


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