Sexuality Is To Feminism What Work Is

Marxism Teaches That Exploitation And Degradation Somehow Produce Resistance And Revolution. It's Been Hard To Say Why. What I've Learned From Women's Experience With Sexuality Is That Exploitation And Degradation Produce Grateful Complicity In Exchange For Survival. They Produce Self-loathing To The Point Of Extinction Of Self, And It Is Respect For Self That Makes Resistance Conceivable.

Imagine That For Hundreds Of Years Your Most Formative Traumas, Your Daily Suffering And Pain, The Abuse You Live Through, The Terror You Live With, Are Unspeakable - Not The Basis Of Literature. You Grow Up With Your Father Holding You Down And Covering Your Mouth So Another Man Can Make A Horrible Searing Pain Between Your Legs.... You Learn How To Leave Your Body And Create Someone Else Who Takes Over When You Cannot Stand It Any More. You Develop A Self Who Is Ingratiating And Obsequious And Imitative And Aggressively Passive And Silent - You Learn, In A Word, Femininity.

Feminism, Socialism, And Communism Are One In The Same, And Socialist/communist Government Is The Goal Of Feminism.

Law In The United States Is At Once A Powerful Medium And A Medium For Power.

Stopped As Attribute Of A Person, Sex Inequality Takes The Form Of Gender; Moving As A Relation Between People, It Takes The Form Of Sexuality. Gender Emerges As The Congealed Form Of The Sexualization Of Inequaltiy Between Men And Women.