Рубрика: THE DIALECTIC OF SEX

LOVE

A book on radical feminism that did not deal with love would be a political failure. For love, perhaps even more than childbearing, is the pivot of women’s oppression to­day. I realize this has frightening implications: Do we want to get rid of love? The panic felt at any threat to love is a good […]

BLACK GOLD

[a large, formidable profile of a black woman in an Afro] I AM THE BLACK WOMAN, MOTHER OF CIVILIZATION,QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSE, THROUGH ME THE BLACK MANPRODUCES HIS NATION. If he does not protect his woman he will not produce a good nation. It is my duty to teach and train the young, who are […]

“black manhood”

What is the attitude of the militant black community to this psychosexual degradation that is racism? I have stated that the black male has three choices in reacting to the white male’s power over him. 1) He can submit on the terms set up by the white male (at best to become a black celebrity—comedian, […]

THE RACIAL FAMILY

oedipus/electra, the eternal triangle, the BROTHEL-BEHIND-THE-SCENES Let us look at race relations in America,* a macrocosm of the hierarchical relations within the nuclear family: The white man is father, the white woman wife-and-moth — er, her status dependent on his; the blacks, like children, are his property, their physical differentiation branding them the subservient class, […]

OUR time: the myth is magnified

We have seen how the increasing privatization of family life brought ever more oppression to its dependents, wom­en and children. The interrelated myths of femininity and childhood were the instruments of this oppression. In the Victorian Bra they reached such epic proportions that finally women rebelled—their rebellion peripherally af­fecting childhood. But the rebellion was destroyed […]

THE MYTH OF CHILDHOOD

In the Middle Ages there was no such thing as child­hood. The medieval view of children was profoundly different from ours. It was not only that it was not “childcentered,” it literally was not conscious of children as distinct from adults. The childmen and childwomen of medieval iconography are miniature adults, reflecting a wholly different […]

DOWN WITH CHILDHOOD

t FOR NECHEM1A who will outgrow childhood before it is eliminated Women and children are always mentioned in the same breath (“Women and children to the forts!”)* The special tie women have with children is recognized by everyone. I submit, however, that the nature of this bond is no more than shared oppression. And that […]