I wonder if the question should not be posed differently. I think that there
is a tendency among people to treat matters of oppression with respect to sex
and gender in a way that divides people. At times, some people who write in
this area tend to minimize other forms of oppression -- sort of like the way
some Jewish people try to minimize any forms of mass violence except the
Holocaust, and then only in so far as the Jewish people were the victims.
On the other side of the coin, some people use Marxian theory to suggest that
only economic exploitation should be a matter of concern.
Culture works sometimes insensitively, sometimes intentionally to degrade all
sorts of groups of people, whether they are singled out by race, gender, ...
I suspect that what I'm saying here might not be particularly well-framed,
but I think that the philosophy of "an injury to 1 is an injury to all" might
be a useful guide in this respect.
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Apropos Carrol's assertions, I'm curious how many PEN-Lers think
> matters of sex/gender, sexuality, and cultural representation are
> topics of analysis and struggle equal in importance to those of class
> and political economy.
>
> If they are equal in importance, why do so few PEN-Lers write about them?
>
> Doug
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