Re: Nationalism is Always Gendered

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

rc-am wrote:

> . . . the promotion of the family as the privileged
> place of national identity, etc.   it's not, as they say, a problem which is
> solved by 'adding women in', though I know you weren't saying exactly this,
> it's a problem of how women and men are defined.

"The Family" as envisioned in official ideology has been, in fact,
disintegrating for a number of years, and while this drives self-identified
conservatives of various stripes wild (witness the letters column of
any small city newspaper as well as the WSJ editorial page) ideology
is going to have to come to some sort of harmony with empirical
actuality. This of course has happened before within capitalism,
so it presumably will happen again. But what form the newer ideology
will take, and how relationships between it and the older will be
negotiated, is ???????

Of my parents' 9 grandchildren, the lives of only two really fit at
all clearly into the older or official pattern.

Carrol