At 9:53 PM 11/26/96, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >So, generally, even in an equitable relationship, a woman can be >severely constrained by marriage. Of course, one can always find the >occasional exception. > >Put another way, I don't think it is necessarily always individual men who >constrain women in marriage, but marriage as structured by the society at >large. For sure. But isn't that less & less true? Aren't women freer to enter and leave marriages than they were 15 or 25 years ago? Along those lines, there's a pull-quote in the new issue of Socialist Review that describes capitalism as more racist and patriarchal than ever. Is that really true? On a global scale, Third World elites are being brought into the club, and in the First World, women are increasingly all over the place. I certainly don't mean to argue that racism and patriarchy have disappeared - obviously they haven't - but isn't the trend away from them? Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA +1-212-874-4020 voice +1-212-874-3137 fax email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> web: <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>
