Re: Nationalism is Always Gendered

["Margaret M Gullette" <mgullette@xxxxxxx>]

Carroll: By the "older pattern," do you mean no more
marriage-and-children or nonstandard work? Or both?
        --Margaret
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-----Original Message-----
From: Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>
To: A place for marxist-feminists to hang out
<M-Fem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, May 07, 1999 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: Nationalism is Always Gendered


>
>
>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
>
>