Re: Nationalism is Always Gendered

[Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Margaret,

You will get no disagreement with me. But there are some (I wouldn't say
theorists) on this list who will take issue with your reference to values.

Andy

On Tue, 11 May 1999, Margaret M Gullette wrote:

>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.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: A place for marxist-feminists to hang out
><M-Fem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Monday, May 10, 1999 9:38 PM
>Subject: Re: Nationalism is Always Gendered
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>>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
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>>Margaret M Gullette wrote:
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>>> Carrol: By the "older pattern," do you mean no more
>>> marriage-and-children or nonstandard work? Or both?
>>>         --Margaret
>>> .
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