<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4916.2300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carrol with 2 r's wrote:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> <P>My objection to Butler was _never_ that _no_ marxists fit her <BR>description; my objection was that it was intellectually dishonest to <BR>refuse to give _any_indication of which marxists in particular, or to <BR>indicate that there were major differences on the point. <BR> <P>Martha Gimenez is a Marxist. Does she deny the importance of gender or <BR>sexual preference? <BR> <P>Barbara Foley is a Marxist. Does she deny the importance of gender and <BR>sexual preference? <BR> <P>If the answer to either of thes questions is No, then Butler is actually <BR>lying with the traditional dishonest academic's ploy of vague <BR>generalization without analysis. <BR></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>--I would add to this list 2 other Marxists whose contributions to the question of gender are valuable, Lise Vogal and Johanna Brenner....</FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brenner has an outsdanding article on    <FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#ff8040 size=5>On Gender and Class in U.S.<BR>Labor History</FONT>   in 1998 that every Marxist should read.  Her book is the essay in book form.    <A href="http://www.monthlyreview.org/1198bren.htm">http://www.monthlyreview.org/1198bren.htm</A></FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>Steve</FONT></P></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>