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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 susankayequinn@wandering.shop

it's wild to read how women are really fucking sick of patriarchy while men are like "wait, this rules! You mean we get to have more power over women?? I'm in!"

while at the same time reading Caliban and the Witch and how witch burnings were used to force women into patriarchy-controlled poverty

https://www.ft.com/content/29fd9b5c-2f35-41bf-9d4c-994db4e12998?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 susankayequinn@wandering.shop

This book (Caliban and the Witch) makes me want to burn everything down (to be clear: it's not THE BOOK, it's the knowledge of how women were brutalized by men and the state into "accepting" patriarchy)

Caliban and the Witch | | Women: The New Commons and the Substitute for the Lost Land It was from this alliance between the crafts and the urban authorities, along with the continuing privatization of land, that a new sexual division of labor or, better, a new sexual contract, in Carol Pateman’s words (1988), was forged, defining women in terms -- mothers, wives, daughters, widows — that hid their status as workers, while giving men free access to women’s bodies, their labor, and the bodies and labor of their children. According to this new social-sexual contract, proletarian women became for male workers the substitute for the land lost to the enclosures: their most basic means of reproduction, and a communal good anyone could appropriate and use at will... in the new organization of work every woman (other than those privatized by bourgeois men) became a communal good, for once women’s activities were defined as non-work, womens labor began to appear as a natural resource, available to all, no less than the air we breathe or the water we drink. This was for women a historic defeat.... pre-capitalist Europe women’s subordination to men had been tempered by access to the commons and other communal assets, while in the new capitalist regime women themselves became the commons, as this work was defined as a natural resource, laying outside the sphere of market relations.

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@susankayequinn @Talia I felt like that when watching the Handmaid's Tale because how the story started there is literally what's happening in places like the US right now... and somehow everyone is ok with that? WTF? We need more angry women in the world, I salute you!
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