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In my opinion, no feminism worthy of the name is not methodologically post-marxist.
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)
In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.
Empirically, all pornography is made under conditions of inequality based on sex, overwhelmingly by poor, desperate, homeless, pimped women who were sexually abused as children.
Only Words (1993)
In all these situations, there was not enough violence against them to take it beyond the category of "sex"; they were not coerced enough.
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)
Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted.
Are Women Human?: and Other International Dialogues (2006)
Women and men are divided by gender, made into the sexes as we know them, by the social requirements of heterosexuality, which institutionalizes male sexual dominance and female sexual submission.
Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory (1982)
Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?
Are Women Human?: and Other International Dialogues (2006)
"Women are raped and coerced into sex."
Reflections on Sex Equality under Law (1991)
Male sexuality is apparently activated by violence against women and expresses itself in violence against women to a significant extent.
Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy (1989)
To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)
Women fake vaginal orgasms, the only 'mature' sexuality, because men demand that they enjoy vaginal penetration.
Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy (1989)
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.
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)
What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.
Are Women Human?: and Other International Dialogues (2006)
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
Are Women Human?: and Other International Dialogues (2006)
“Women are socially disadvantaged in controlling sexual access to their bodies through socialization to customs that define a woman's body as for sexual use by men. Sexual access is regularly forced or pressured or routinized beyond denial.”
Reflections on Sex Equality under Law (1991)
”Perhaps the wrong of rape has proven so difficult to articulate because the unquestionable starting point has been that rape is definable as distinct from intercourse, when for women it is difficult to distinguish them under conditions of male dominance.”
Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence (1983)
Compare victims' reports of rape with women's reports of sex. They look a lot alike
Sexuality, Pornography, and Method: "Pleasure under Patriarchy (1989)
Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated. You might think that's too broad. I'm not talking about sending all of you men to jail for that. I'm talking about attempting to change the nature of the relations between women and men by having women ask ourselves: "Did I feel violated?" To me, part of the culture of sexual inequality that makes women not report rape is that the definition of rape is not based on our sense of our violation.
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)
Show me an abuse of women in society, I'll show it to you made sex in the pornography. If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world. You will find them being hurt in just that way.
Feminism Unmodified: Discourses on Life and Law (1987)
All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.
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