AUT: Re: Marxist explanations of sexual violence

["cwright" <cwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Rapist Who Pays the Rent, by Ruth Hall, Selma James, and Judit Kertesz
Familiar Exploitation, by Christine Delphy
Subject Women by Ann Oakley
Chicana Feminist Thought by Alma Garcia
All the Men are Black, All the Women are White, But Some of Us are Strong by
Barbara Smith
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman by Michelle Wallace
Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts

A large range of material exists on sexual harassment in the workplace, esp.
Theresa Amott, Lise Vogel (Mothers on the Job) and critical legal theory
stuff on gender in the workplace too.

Cheers,
Chris

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From: "Scott Hamilton" <s_h_hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <revo-readers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 7:49 AM
Subject: AUT: Marxist explanations of sexual violence


>
> Hi autopsy and revo-readers,
>
> Does anyone know of any work by Marxists on sexual
> violence (that's the general term the experts use to
> cover everything from rape to incest to harassment at
> work)?
>
> I have been helping someone employed by a sexual
> health group do some research and formulate some
> viewpoints on this issue. For me, it is essential to
> take a broad and materialist view of this issue - to
> transcend the narrow empiricism - the uncontextualised
> statistics and reproduction of faddish homilies -
> which compromise much of the work I have seen.
>
> The leap from analyses of the likes of unpaid domestic
> labour and women's role in the reserve army of labour
> to explanations of actual sexual violence is a great
> one. I have been trying (proabaly ineptly) to make it
> by focusing on ideology - that is, on the ideological
> reproduction of women's economic place in capitalism
> via the operation of empiricism/commodity fetishism. I
> figure that the presence of sexist ideology - which,
> of course, comes in many forms, from Baptism to
> political correctness to ostensibly liberatory guides
> to being a 'superwoman' - is a necessary condition for
> acts of sexual violence, and that credible claims can
> thus be made about a 'material base' for sexual
> violence in capitalist society.
>
> If the base often makes itself felt indirectly,
> through the agency of ideology, it may also make
> itself felt directly, by ensuring an environment that
> encourages such violence (the 'privacy' of the
> family-as-economic-unit and the economic dependence of
> many women on men are cases in point here).
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts, references?
>
> Cheers
> Scott
>
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