Re: Identity Politics, Single Issues and Solidarity
On Aug 7, 2006, at 7:24 PM, joanna wrote:
Well, buzzwords aside, the reason why “working class” grants a
privileged view is because that class is responsible for creating lived reality — the food, clothes, cars,
buildings, etc.
But there’s almost no aspect of work that’s not segmented by gender
and/or ethnicity. And what about the lived reality of families (which
are vehicles for the transmission of inheritance, of wealth and/or
poverty) and intimate relations, which are all about gender and
sexuality.
Doug