General status of gender relations vs. Quibbles

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 24 14:55:40 PST 1999


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


>It is inaccurate to speak of "gender phenomena" as simply
>"social/discursive phenomena." Gender is an effect of oppression, just as
>race is. No oppression, no gender. No oppression, no race.

Isn't oppression a social phenomenon? And what's so simple about social/discursive phenomena? They seem as complex as hell to me.

Doug



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