When I said that I was thinking of Jane Alpert, who was in the Weather Underground and after she broke from them, cooperated with the FBI, and in 1974 wrote a manifesto called "Mother Right" in which she rejects the violent, "male supremacist" left and embraces a very passionate, and deeply reactionary, sort of cultural feminism. [The whole text is online at http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/mother/] more interestingly, I was also thinking of the support that Alpert attracted from far more influential feminists, like onetime Ms editor Robin Morgan, who had also been closely affiliated with left movements and later rejected them in favor of this reactionary, anti-materialist cultural feminism, which tended to view women as fundamentally different from men, even superior, because of biology (by which they generally meant, not our fun, aesthetically fabulous breasts and capacity for hours of orgasm, but, of course our ability to bear children and our nurturing instincts, etc), and tended to reject solidarity with other oppressed groups and especially any kind of Marxist or leftist analysis. I doubt Morgan would endorse Bush, but Chesler's support of Bush is a completely logical, consistent extension of Alpert's"mother right" brand of feminism. if you reject any kind of anti-imperialist politics as something that icky, violent men came up with, there's no reason NOT to applaud GWB in Afghanistan.
Liza
> From: "Jeet Heer" <jeet at sturdynet.com>
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> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2004 17:49:11 -0500
> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Phyllis Chesler endorses Bush
>
>
> Liza just pointed out that
>> several purist 70s feminists have moved right over the years.
>>
>> Doug
>
> Who exactly? Elizabeth Fox Genovese comes to mind but I can't think of
> anyone else, but I'm not so well versed in this area. So any names would be
> helpful. Jeet
>
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