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“How does it feel to be a problem?” W.E.B. Du Bois
“A just world would be one without gender.” Susan Orkin
1.*
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subject, center, dominant, worldly, hegemonic, civilization,
restraint, agency, instrumental, majority, strong, individual,
hierarchy, ego, general, market, exteroceptive (penis),
justice, objective, vicious, power, independent, contractual,
networks, society, competitive, striving, aggressive, cerebral,
self-interest, ruthless, autonomous, Nature, biology, separate,
Philosophy, oppressor, realistic, law, protector, criminal,
political, transactional, freedom, universal, authority, teacher,
The State, industrialization, patriarchy, abstract, attitudes,
opinions, logical, values, politics, history, tactics, strategy,
struggle, progress, primary, discourse... |
spontaneous, intuitive, impulsive, muse, domestic, provident,
subordinate, marginal, object, minority, weak, dependent,
collective, egalitarian, children, particular, home, “other,”
communal, interior/receptive (vagina), emotional,
subjective, Madonna/virgin : whore, helpless, needy,
non-contractual, relationships, affective, passive, Nature, nice,
love, support, caring, instinct, biology, bonding, belonging,
Feminism, utopian-unrealistic, oppressed, family, protected,
victim, transactional, order, student, agricultural, matriarchy,
literal, attitudes, opinions, feelings, illogical, recurrence,
motherhood, secondary, gossip... |
2.**
She
found a fellow worker with whom
To
live after primate forebears made
Obligate
families with friends. Harboring
A
short-term host, she found one
Ancient
trait of groups leading
Her
tribe to social life. Totemic culture
Was
based on selfish codes of hominids
Since
the power of conflict deprived them
Of
their rational mien. Chance fixed
Marginal
ranks for women, though culture
Made
them happy before parenthood
Changed
everything though time and space
Warped
neurons spiking with their thoughts
After
forming the context for their discontent.
*Inspired by Fox Genovese,
E (1991) Feminism without illusions: a
critique of individualism. The University of
North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill.
**Inspired
by Freud S (1961) Civilization
and its discontents.
W.W. Norton and Co. New York.
