An analysis of how using feminist critique of “The Social Contract” can be extended to give insight into the new “Gender Contract” being proposed globally by governments and institutions.
I took Political Science and Women's Studies at University and damn, this essay brilliantly, seamlessly combines political thought and feminism. My Women's Studies professors back then would be considered 100% "TERFs" today. And yes Trans issues were discussed more than 35 years ago in Women's Studies classes. As a lefty libfem, know-it-all teenager I did not agree with excluding TIMs from the class of Women. Feminism and left politics has had an uneasy alliance . . . which you cover in your remarkable Big Sister essay! I hope these essays get published in book form --an anthology for young modern Rad Feminists/ Women's Studies scholars. One good thing from the current TRA/GenderWoo is that its made me revisit the wisdom from those RadFem professors.
And now i'm a RadFem- ha! Anyway thanks for this amazing essay- I look forward to more of your brilliance.
Excellent breakdown of the relevance of contract.. to explain the tsunami engulfing us all that of ‘gender theory/ideology. On TIK-Tok is a self presented imagine of a fine looking young woman , late teens I surmise. Here she is talking about her ‘binary gender’ we are told that at any moment in time she will identify as she/him/they. She is clearly presenting as a feminised female stereotype . She is aware how problematic this can be for those she engages with. To solve this ( I kid you not) she has 3 wrist bands used to Id her pronouns as follows… pink for she her blue for he/him yellow for they them. She then holds up her wrist to exhibit her pronouns of the moment … she laughs it’s pink/yellow bands because in this moment she undecided how you can refer to she/her/they/them!
This is the ‘gender contract’ in full swing…. Definitely something not right in the minds of Eurocentric youth.
I enjoyed reading this and I watch watched your conversation with Julia Long on the WHRC youtube channel which was a very interesting discussion. I will share this about. Thank you.
Thank you for weaving together all this history of contract theory. I am very interested in the idea that the "beauty" regimes are in fact a costume with which women signal their "consent" to their subordinate status. Prostituted women exaggerate this costume to signal their extreme subjugation (or subjection). Make-up, high heels (the slang when I was growing up was "come-fuck-me shoes"), décolletage, etc. are the real costume for Handmaidens, more than the capes and wimples.
i'm interested in social and economic critiques from a feminist perspective; so i wondered whether radical feminist economics exists, and if so, are their any such economists available to talk for the radical feminist perspectives series?
I took Political Science and Women's Studies at University and damn, this essay brilliantly, seamlessly combines political thought and feminism. My Women's Studies professors back then would be considered 100% "TERFs" today. And yes Trans issues were discussed more than 35 years ago in Women's Studies classes. As a lefty libfem, know-it-all teenager I did not agree with excluding TIMs from the class of Women. Feminism and left politics has had an uneasy alliance . . . which you cover in your remarkable Big Sister essay! I hope these essays get published in book form --an anthology for young modern Rad Feminists/ Women's Studies scholars. One good thing from the current TRA/GenderWoo is that its made me revisit the wisdom from those RadFem professors.
And now i'm a RadFem- ha! Anyway thanks for this amazing essay- I look forward to more of your brilliance.
Excellent breakdown of the relevance of contract.. to explain the tsunami engulfing us all that of ‘gender theory/ideology. On TIK-Tok is a self presented imagine of a fine looking young woman , late teens I surmise. Here she is talking about her ‘binary gender’ we are told that at any moment in time she will identify as she/him/they. She is clearly presenting as a feminised female stereotype . She is aware how problematic this can be for those she engages with. To solve this ( I kid you not) she has 3 wrist bands used to Id her pronouns as follows… pink for she her blue for he/him yellow for they them. She then holds up her wrist to exhibit her pronouns of the moment … she laughs it’s pink/yellow bands because in this moment she undecided how you can refer to she/her/they/them!
This is the ‘gender contract’ in full swing…. Definitely something not right in the minds of Eurocentric youth.
I enjoyed reading this and I watch watched your conversation with Julia Long on the WHRC youtube channel which was a very interesting discussion. I will share this about. Thank you.
Cheers Jo. Further insights and truths to mull on and quote.
Very concise and accessible explanation of observable reality.
Thank you for weaving together all this history of contract theory. I am very interested in the idea that the "beauty" regimes are in fact a costume with which women signal their "consent" to their subordinate status. Prostituted women exaggerate this costume to signal their extreme subjugation (or subjection). Make-up, high heels (the slang when I was growing up was "come-fuck-me shoes"), décolletage, etc. are the real costume for Handmaidens, more than the capes and wimples.
Excellent essay! I think you would really like the book, "The First Political Order: How Sex Shapes Governance and National Security Worldwide."
i'm interested in social and economic critiques from a feminist perspective; so i wondered whether radical feminist economics exists, and if so, are their any such economists available to talk for the radical feminist perspectives series?