SOCI 255 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Sexual Politics, Peace Movement, Socialist Feminism
Document Summary
There is the classic feminist slogan "the personal is political" that states a basic feature in feminist and gay politics, a link between personal experience and power relations. During the 1970s, western feminisms made open and substantial demands on the state in every country where a significant mobilization of women occurred. The reforms wanted to include the decriminalization of abortion in. By the 1980s a women"s peace movement had added disarmament and environmental protection. Abortion was decriminalized in some countries, but a powerful american movement to re-criminalize it is under way. Non-sexist education policies with teeth (and funding) remain rare. If the modern state is itself "the general patriarch" then demanding the state redress injustices worked by the "individual patriarch" in the family is merely appealing from caesar unto caesar. At issue is the way we think about gender and about the state. Mackinnon said that "feminism has no theory of the state"
