Feminist on Incest: "the incest taboo can be destroyed only by destroying the nuclear family as the primary institution of the culture" (Andrea Dworkin, 1974) (self.politics)

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[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoat:_The_Jews,_Israel,_and_Women%27s_Liberation

In Scapegoat, Dworkin compared the oppression of women to the persecution of Jews, discussed the sexual politics of Jewish identity and antisemitism, and called for the establishment of a women's homeland as a response to the oppression of women, just as the Zionist movement had established a state for Jews.

Writing in Spectre, Sophie Lewis argued that Scapegoat represents the “despairing culmination” of Dworkin’s thought, contending that the book advocates the creation of an “Israel” for women and links women’s liberation to nationalist violence. Lewis criticized the work as relying on sweeping historical analogies and described its argument as “dazzlingly erudite and stunningly stupid,” ultimately characterizing its political vision as “fascistic.”

[-] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

What if there was a country but it was just for the ladies?

[-] Speaker@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

What if it was Hisrael and it was just for the fellas?

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Hizrl and Herzl

[-] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

like that greek island?

[-] Wallura 15 points 2 months ago

I haven't read that book of her yet.

But in her book "woman hating" she has a chapter on chinese footbinding and writes that mutilating the opposite sex is a form enslavement. Her being jewish - there's an obvious irony.

[-] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 19 points 2 months ago

Though I would not personally use the word slavery, I think there's something to be said about viewing women's bodies as property to the point where they are mutilated in a way that makes it more difficult to do even the most basic of tasks. Women were bought and sold chiefly by and for the benefit of men and things were done to them, often against their will, to make their market rate higher. Again, not sure I'd use the word slavery, but mostly because in the US it is so closely associated with chattel slavery that it is hard to warrant a comparison, even though it is pretty close to other forms of slavery.