'Identity Politics'

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Sep 16 17:04:13 PDT 1999


Catherine Driscoll wrote:


>Yoshie is quite right about the pragmatic need for identity politics.

I agree, though I think the name gives it an image problem.


>And Charles...
>
> >By the way, women are the majority , not a minority.
>
>There is an argument that 'minority' is not about numbers but about a
>position in relation to a privileged norm or standard. But it's one of
>those dark post-structuralist things, so perhaps I should discuss it here.

Do tell...

But didn't Amartya Sen (?) argue that women aren't the majority, and that there are x million "missing" women?

Doug



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