[lbo-talk] Abortion, not a women's issue. How about femicide?

[joanna]

"I see the acceleration of physical abuse, abandonment of mothers, sexual assault 
to be directly related to the growth of colonialist narco free trade, the 
destruction of land based cultures and the valuing of competition and profit 
over healthy relationships."

That's a little bit too easy. In many "relationship-based" that is to say "kinship-based" cultures the abuse of women is not even seen as abuse -- just as a sign that the owner cares. Cultures in which women are serially raped in order to punish the males to whom they belong (a recent incident in Pakistan) may be free from market relations and yet persist in femicide and abuse. In such cultures women may see a factory job as a step up.

Joanna