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“Peace in patriarchy is war against women.”
― Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
― Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
“The feminist project is basically an anarchist movement which does not want to replace one (male) power elite by another (female) power elite, but which wants to build up a non-hierarchical, non-centralised society where no elite lives of exploitation and dominance over others.”
― Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
― Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour
“The division of the world which followed defined certain parts of the world as ‘nature’, that is, as savage, uncontrolled and, therefore, open for exploitation and civilizing efforts… the process of naturalization’ did not affect only the colonies as a whole and women of the working class the women of the bourgeoisie also were defined into nature as mere breeders and rearers of the heirs of the capitalist class. But in contrast to the African women who were seen as part of ‘savage’ nature, the bourgeois women were seen as ‘domesticated’
nature.”
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nature.”
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