Re: Nationalism is Always Gendered

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

Now that "family values" is in the mainstream, I think the left
should appropriate it and use it to include: reinstatement of
welfare, raising of minimum wage, national health care, day care, a
shorter work week, paid parental leave for longer terms, measures to
support seniority and the high late age-wage curve, more assistance
for in-home elder/disability care, tax credits for people (women)
helping family members at home, etc. . . . . I plan to use the term
as explicitly as this in my next book, unless good theorists like you
find some reasons for me not to.
And I would hope it would get picked up and cause plenty of confusion
and contest, and the left would get it back again.
        Margaret
But about your parents' grandchildren: it's one thing if all but two
have non-standard work, and quite something else if they're marrying
late or not marrying, etc. I was really asking specifically about
them.


Resident Scholar, Women's Studies, Brandeis
e-mail: mgullette@xxxxxxx
617-965-2164
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culture" (1998 Emily Toth Award)


-----Original Message-----
From: Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>
To: A place for marxist-feminists to hang out
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Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: Nationalism is Always Gendered


>I thought I would add a general question to Margaret's question to
>me. Could anyone attempt to define what is in the head of all the
>people who accept the slogan, "family values"? I take for granted
>that the inner meaning it bears for the people who push it is "Keep
>them pregnant and barefoot!" but the slogan must have a somewhat
>more complex effect on those who swallow it.
>
>Carrol
>
>Margaret M Gullette wrote:
>
>> Carrol: By the "older pattern," do you mean no more
>> marriage-and-children or nonstandard work? Or both?
>>         --Margaret
>> .
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