motherhood.
wow. the media really took THIS one on a spin, hey? do we ask for this, as news consumers?
these are the mere ideas of the moment:
the ethics of care: the constructs of female emotion
marxist feminism: the production of reproduction. subornation is maintained materially and maternally. "women's work."
the construction of 'dependence' - when does autonomy take place? when our milk runs dry?
the backlash of biology. convenient physical manifestation to generalize women as mothers. behavior expectations.
the 'double bind' of tradition and career.
marriage as industry.
alright, that is about enough for one night, I think
vendredi 6 février 2009
lundi 2 février 2009
my feminist guilt list
I have been list-making in my SLEEP.
Lately, we are learning about feminist issues of unity, of intersecting oppressions, of race, of class, of location location location. In accordance, I feel it necessary to purge myself. so here it is, on the table: my feminist guilt list.
1) I am white
2) my family is middle class
3) I am university educated
3) There was a time where I once enjoyed sex and the city.
4) I believe that children are wonderbread.
5) I am bound, as we are all bound, by our history. I feel terribly sorry about that.
6) I do believe in Satre's 'look,' but only when I FEEL it. and I feel it. we're still being watched.
but I keep asking myself (another question that dogs my second undergrad) what am I going to do about this big, feminist mess? Am I the only one to feel this? Does this have another name? Is it right to be so subjective, so inverted?
as bell hooks (who is saving me from myself) rightly writes, there is no liberation based on 'I'; no collective movement based on 'everyone.' we cannot compare the struggles of women to the struggles of Aboriginal, or blacks or jews, or palestinians, or chinese, or any 'minority group' or those who experience classism, racism ageism, homophobia, oppression, everything. is there a point to contest who got more fucked over by institutions, industries, governments, social bodies, the media, the nuclear family, oppression, exclusion, everything.
I want action!
--- but first?
the feminist challenge of radical self-criticism: to confront the oppressor within. to confront the private lives, to confront experiences.
(read bell hooks.)
Lately, we are learning about feminist issues of unity, of intersecting oppressions, of race, of class, of location location location. In accordance, I feel it necessary to purge myself. so here it is, on the table: my feminist guilt list.
1) I am white
2) my family is middle class
3) I am university educated
3) There was a time where I once enjoyed sex and the city.
4) I believe that children are wonderbread.
5) I am bound, as we are all bound, by our history. I feel terribly sorry about that.
6) I do believe in Satre's 'look,' but only when I FEEL it. and I feel it. we're still being watched.
but I keep asking myself (another question that dogs my second undergrad) what am I going to do about this big, feminist mess? Am I the only one to feel this? Does this have another name? Is it right to be so subjective, so inverted?
as bell hooks (who is saving me from myself) rightly writes, there is no liberation based on 'I'; no collective movement based on 'everyone.' we cannot compare the struggles of women to the struggles of Aboriginal, or blacks or jews, or palestinians, or chinese, or any 'minority group' or those who experience classism, racism ageism, homophobia, oppression, everything. is there a point to contest who got more fucked over by institutions, industries, governments, social bodies, the media, the nuclear family, oppression, exclusion, everything.
I want action!
--- but first?
the feminist challenge of radical self-criticism: to confront the oppressor within. to confront the private lives, to confront experiences.
(read bell hooks.)
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