More essays that started elsewhere

[neonchameleon]

This one started on Ship of Fools

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[anotherusedpage]

we can implement Chinese style policies
Surely, you need contraceptives to be able to implement the chinese birth-control laws?

[anotherusedpage]

Sorry, that sounds more like immediately jumping down your throat than it was meant to. It just, y'know, struck me. :)

[neonchameleon]

No problem (since when have I worried about having my throat jumped down?) - although that icon saying *pounce* being the first part of the message I read lent it a certain irony.

[vectorious]

since when have I worried about having my throat jumped down?

[Frankie Howerd] Ooh! Missus![/Frakie Howerd]

Sorry, it was too much to resist.

[karen2205]

I think feminism predates the existence of contraception. I date feminism back to the campaigning for women to have the vote in the 1910-1918 period. Marie Stopes + the contraceptive pill only came along in the 1920s and at that stage was only prescribed to married women. A lot of early feminist work was to increase availability of contraception.

I don't see having children as something which stops a woman from using her talents to do things other than raising children. It may well have done in the past from the practical point of view because of the lack of technology (ie. imagine running a household with no fridge, no washing machine, no microwave, no indoor toilet, no plumbed in bath, no supermarkets, no car). Nowadays, the existance of all these things makes it possible to combine children and careers.

[neonchameleon]

I was thinking of the 1960s feminism, and the right to work, not the suffragists.

And you may well be right about the extra technology - but one of the results of technology is simply that standards rise,

[neonchameleon]

(a) Suffragettes were the more radical fringe and (b) Suffragette was a term coined by the opponents of the movement to belittle the suffragists. I therefore use suffragists.