Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!ora!ambar From: johnson@andromeda.rutgers.edu (David K Johnson) Newsgroups: soc.feminism Subject: Re: What is Feminism? Message-ID: <9008080130.AA15061@andromeda.rutgers.edu> Date: 8 Aug 90 01:30:08 GMT References: <141@sierra.STANFORD.EDU> <11103@chaph.usc.edu> Sender: ambar@ora.com (Jean Marie Diaz) Organization: Rutgers University, Newark, NJ Lines: 13 Approved: ambar@ora.com In-Reply-To: <56304@microsoft.UUCP> I wonder how one might be in favor of the "equal humanity of men and women" (sounds like a tautology to me) and reject as ill- conceived all those egalitarian "ideologies" you listed: each of them, in theory at the very least, sets out from the initial assumption that something very important remains unequal -- the distribution of the benefits and burdens of social action; the relations between the sexes, between races, between species. I wonder what plans you have for addressing these inequalities, once you have done away with every interesting liberatory project in the name of the almighty market.. Johnson@andromeda.rutgers.edu.