[lbo-talk] Feminism abandoning an agenda

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 08:12:50 PST 2006


is there a unified viewpoint called "feminism" which can abandon anything? or rather, are some people who call themselves "feminists" abandoing some parts of their old agenda?

On 2/15/06, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> Joanna:
>
> <<<I could not quite make sense of academic feminism...and abandoned it many
> years ago. But could you please say more? How exactly did they belittle the
> agenda of equal rights, child care, equal pay, etc.>>>
>
> I guess what she meant was that ID politics and counterculturalist
> "shock-cunts" peddling their intellectual commodity replaced the more
> mundane and "mainstream" femininsts concerns, equal pay, child care etc.
> Not exactly scathing criticism of femininism -since the entire pop-kulcha
> seems to be drifting in that direction. A more intersting question is not
> whether femninism is drifiting in that direction - since everyone else does
> - but whether it is drifiting faster, at about the same pace, or slower
> (which may indicate resistance).
>
> Wojtek
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