[lbo-talk] Identity Politics, Single Issues and Solidarity

[joanna]

I'm not very good at theory. All I know, from my own life and that of my 
mother and of my grandmother, is that what gives women "rights" is their 
ability to work outside of the family for a living wage.

When we are able to create a society in which human beings -- men or 
women -- are paid to provide the support traditionally drawn gratis from 
the private/female realm, then a lot of "gender" issues will disappear. 

 And I'm willing to lay money on the fact that this society will most 
likely be socialist.

Joanna

Doug Henwood wrote:


>
> On Aug 7, 2006, at 7:24 PM, joanna wrote:
>
>> Well, buzzwords aside, the reason why "working class" grants a  
>> privileged view is because that class is
>> responsible for creating lived reality -- the food, clothes, cars,  
>> buildings, etc.
>
>
> But there's almost no aspect of work that's not segmented by gender  
> and/or ethnicity. And what about the lived reality of families (which  
> are vehicles for the transmission of inheritance, of wealth and/or  
> poverty) and intimate relations, which are all about gender and  
> sexuality.
>
> Doug
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