Re: Cuban Women: Randall's Reassessment

[Julio Pino <jpino@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie: D'accord. In fact, one of Randall's critique's in "Gathering Rage"
is that despite the effort to "re-educate" the public concerning
homosexuals, or perhaps, as you hint, because of it, "her kind", Lesbian
socialists, have a very difficult time coming out in Cuba.

 Gay men and lesbians suffered from
>the same treatment of "deviance" as prostitutes did (from threats of
>imprisonment to medicalization).
>
>Women's emancipation, in the end, has to be self-emancipation of
>women.  The word "rehabilitation" already negates *self*-emancipation
>& suggests top-down & technocratic direction.  Men can not emancipate
>women, not even under socialism, just as middle-class feminist
>reformers can not emancipate working-class women under capitalism.
>*Women* under socialism have to take *leadership* in their own
>emancipation.
>
>Yoshie
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