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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