my monthly entry

[fromthishour]

reading irigaray's femenist interpretation of marx has me fired up. i am almost tempted to delve deeper into femenist theory but i have a feeling it is a dark and scary place. remembering being pissed off in womens studies at the claim that i have no gender, even if i associate freely with one. bc everything is a social construction and we dont

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[afraidtorejoice]

Hi Shifa... It's been a while since you posted on here. I hope you are well. Could you explain to me Marxist Feminism?

Also, It seems strange to identify one's self apart from culture. Humanity in isolation doesn't exist. And certainly most things are social constructions, but what are the foundation of these constructions? Not that I doubt most of Durkheimian Sociology and its mysticism, but I think that modern reductionism may have run its course.

Shifa I haven't seen you in so long, You should hang out with me if we are ever in the same city at the same time.

Everytime I go to Toronto I think "hey, my friend Shifa lives here. I should look her up." and then I remember that you don't anymore. it all happens in a split second, but that split second happens everytime I am there.

toronto misses me

[fromthishour]

its not so much marxist feminism as it is a femenist reading of marx. She basically takes his idea of the "commodity" in the economy, which is a product that is attributed value based on fetishizing (attributing a supernatural quality to something, making it desireable and therefore giving it value), and the value is measured in terms of a third external thing (money) in order to make things exchangeable. In her feminist reading, Irigaray says that the economy (and social and political systems) are based on women being commodities, exchanged between groups of men (first belongs to the father, then marries a husband, and all social actions like work, relationships, etc are based on men having relations with themselves). The "third external thing" is what men consider desireable, and how a woman matches up to this ideal of the desireable woman is what determines her value. The virgin has the most value because she can be exchanged and has not been "used," her entire existenc represents the opportunity for sexual relations, which is what

[sparkelbell]

it's nice to read my name in your journal entry.
it's nice to be remembered.

unfortunately, i don't think i have anything good to tell you about law school. if you email me your phone number i will call you (maybe this weekend?) and tell you all about it. although i think we will have to do it during the day so it's nice and sunny out because it will be a lot like a very scary horror story.

[fromthishour]

hi kim i miss you. i hope yorue not dying. so i looked for your email address but cant find it in my mailbox so let me know...