Gender and Reproduction Re: The nature of anarchism (Lefty Despair etc.)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
>
>>Sexual reproduction, for all its wonderful innovation (biologically 
>>speaking), does tend to divide a species.
>
>Look, I'll grant you that women got the short end of the stick on 
>that reproduction deal. For the sake of argument at least. But 
>surely division of labour isn't the same as, nor necessarily 
>creates, a conflict of interest?
>
>Where is the irreconcilable conflict of interest between mean and women?
>
>Bill Bartlett

Jenny didn't quite say that sexual reproduction in itself creates an 
irreconcilable conflict of interest between men and women.  Without 
(1) women's control over our own bodies -- especially our 
reproductive capacity -- and (2) public provision of work of social 
reproduction -- education, health care, child care, services to the 
elderly, services to the disabled, etc. -- in which (3) such social 
work is divided equally between male and female workers and (4) 
social workers are compensated as well as workers who produce goods 
and other kinds of service, however, women will remain second-class 
citizen-workers.
-- 
Yoshie

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