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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 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)
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)
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)
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)