Re: gender: Judith Butler's pseudo materialism and cultural feminism.(fw

Read the rest of my post. i said that "gender inequality is not built into
human nature". gender is a social product just as private property is a
social invention. This is what i meant by accurate notion of human nature.
If you think human nature is sexist and capitalist by definition, 
beleive it so. Since i don't believe..

human nature is not essence either or is something to have access to. it
develops with society as social. Also remember Marx' concept of human
nature as species being and his concept of social nature..I don't wanna
reiterate Economic and Philosophical manuscripts and German Ideology...

I have got to go back...


Mine 

 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:31:56 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com>
To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Re: gender: Judith Butler's pseudo materialism and cultural 
feminism. (fwd)

md7148@cnsvax.albany.edu wrote:

>The bottom line is that we MUST HAVE AN ACCURATE NOTION OF HUMAN NATURE TO
>BE ABLE TO HAVE AN ACCURATE UNDERSTANDING OF GENDER RELATIONS.

How do you know when you've found an "accurate notion of human 
nature"? You have some access to "human nature" beyond 
social/discursive constructions of it?

Doug