Re: Keynes, feminism, and pooh

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>Long live Feminism! Long live grand=20
>dialectical syntheses between men and women;=20
>women and women; men and men; and down with=20
>speciesm, ageist, sexism!

>I am a child of the revolution! Unfortunately=20
Me too

>I was born in the wrong era. I find modern=20
I wasn't.

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>So the post-keynesian economists get the=20
>prize for the most chauvinist economists!!

Or the prize for being the most bored with the rantings of pseudo-
revolutionary post-moderns; it's very fashionable these days. Have
you considered that some things or ideas are gender-free?

>This discussion on Feminist Thought seemed to=20
>link theory and the personal in a way that I=20
>liked. Remember: the personal is the=20
>political! The message of Heather Grob=92s=20

But is it good social SCIENCE? I'm sure something will turn up to
answer this question one way or another.

>response seemed to me to be that FEMECON (the=20
>feminist network) is seperatist in the sense=20
>that it is specialising in feminist issues.=20
>Carla made a similar point, as did Barry and=20
>Doug and Jim. Whereas if you read Bill=20
>Mitchell=92s contribution one got the=20
>impression that seperation and specialisation=20
>is not necessarily good. I could imagine that=20
>some of the sorts of things that Prue Hyman=20
>might discuss would shock the post keynesian=20
>economists out of their pants! Come on post=20
>keynesians - gender is critical!

Discussions shouldn't be so shocking. Torture, human sacrifice
and  emprical data, maybe.

>I am a member of FEMECON. I started full of=20
Isn't Internet wonderful!

>enthusiasm, but waned a little over time (as=20
>with most of the networks): the honeymoon was=20
>over? I certainly got the impression that, to=20
>some degree, some women on the network=20
>preferred to talk with like minded women. I=20

Why do you think this is true?

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>Men are the hardest to change on these=20
>issues: they tend to be more sexist,=20
>chauvinist, and backward in their analysis of=20

Really? I thought women could do anything a man could.

>gender. They also tend to be homophobic. It=20
>is easier for women and men to discuss=20
>emotional and sexual issues seriously with=20
>women; men tend not to cope that well. To me=20

Do you think this is a problem with Federal Reserve Policy?

>the real test of any left-orientated group is=20
>the degree to which they are able to 1)=20
>include a broadly similar number of each sex=20
>(taking into account that many women will be=20
>home doing the housework/child care!); 2)=20

I disagree. The Real test of any left-oreinted group is that can
win more elections than its right wing competitors.

>And what has this got to do with economics or=20
>Marxism (depending on the network)? In a=20
>holistic economics, according to Myrdal, the=20
>principle of interdependency suggests that=20
>everything is interrelated. So also does the=20

This interdependency theme is so broad and vague it can be used to
justify anything, in which case it justifies nothing.

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>cheers,   Phil O=92Hara

Happy Halloween to you too!

--Stephen Guastello