>The civil rights movement was far more advanced morally and politically
>then all the little identity movements that splintered it and
>destroyed it.....
>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.
But didn't the roots of the civil rights movement include gender issues, like suffrage? And was it really identity movements that destroyed it? I'd give more weight to the same neo-con and neo-lib forces that have stymied progressive politics of all sorts for the last 30 odd years.