[lbo-talk] Do you take this man? No thanks

tfast tfast at yorku.ca
Tue Jan 2 01:53:11 PST 2007


So Becker was right after all marriage is a market.

Travis

Yoshie writes
> The positive and negative factors contributing the eclipse of marriage
> are fundamentally two sides of the same coin: most importantly, men
> have less money (negative), so they have less power to impose their
> will on women (positive). In this sense, neoliberal capitalism has
> been good for liberal feminism. Both leftists and rightists are
> reluctant to clearly spell out this dialectical relation, for most
> people want to believe that we all can have positives without
> negatives.
>
> For most working-class women, single motherhood means less money.
>
> Also, being single in old age is a big financial disadvantage for women.
>



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