Hi, everyone!
It was so cool today that I could spend all day without an air conditioner.
Even the 30s, I felt comfortable.
Sunflower, please teach me about your paper.
Should I get my MSN hotmail to access your file?
If so, I will try it.(I don't have it.)
Thank you, sunflower.
Plum and Cosmos, thank you for your sympathy about my old school days.
Well, I think those days might yield my vague question about myself,
and now, finally take me to our group and meet all of you.
Come to think about it, it might be very important for me.
I'm lucky with you now.
So, I hope you also feeling happy.
Thank you, and good bye!
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Dear Cherry and friends,
I often meet chauvinistic people and hear chauvinistic words. Male chauvinists like Governor Ishihara know what he says. But some chauvinists are not aware how their ideas are biased. Quite a few women allow men to be chauvinists admiring them as leaders. It's difficult to distinguish chauvinistic attitudes from masculine attractiveness.
When I was an elementary student, I always argued with classmates. I was a slow student in a way. I couldn't easily understand what the teacher taught. I was really bad at fractions. So if I had doubt, I had to raise questions. Boys always complained. They said when I was absent from school, “nobody interrupted the class thanks to your absense.” They said to me, “you are not feminine.” The teacher never said a word about it. I didn't trust him at all. One boy who hated me kicked me once. Other girls were quiet. It seemed that they didn't understand the class better than I did. If they tried to behave how girls were supposed to behave in the class, they were deprived of the right to learn. It's a crime against human rights.
My junior high school days were worse than that. I gradually learned how dangerous it is to have opinions in Japanese society. This is how I became a quiet girl.
Changing climate makes us tired.
Please take care.
August 23, 2007 20:12 JST
I found a spelling mistake.
Absense should "absence." Sorry.
Absense should BE "absence."
I must be tired...
Hi, everyone.
Yesterday, the
lines I wrote disapperaed on the blog. However, I don't understand what happened. I can never write it again.
I read Harriet Taylor, I would like to know more about her.
Did she read the books Wollstonecraft wrote? Would you tell me? or Would you tell me what book I read.
Cherry, what period was your teacher born at? I can not believe such a living fossil existed in your school days. I am sorry for your having been shocked with the words. However, I was born in the household in the feudalism. I vented my feeling of gloom on guys in the junior high school, maybe. One day, I noticed male students believed their class was in Amazonas.
Governor Ishihara said 'It's huge waste that women after the change of life survive.' I lament his ignorance of human beings' evolution. How did human beings evolve? Without long life expectancey of female human beings, our evolution is not told.
Hi, Cherry, Alice, Magnolia, and Sunflower.
Thank you for writing to us about Robert Owen (1771-1858) who lived in Manchester, then the very epicentre of social and economic change. I really enjoyed reading his profile and I am so glad that I came to know his beliefs and activities.
Now I would like you to know about Friedrich Engels (November 28, 1820 – August 5, 1895) who once lived in Manchester when young and again in his 50s and was a successful business-minded person. He wrote and published Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State (1884). (He lived a double life as a, sort of, capitalist and communist all his life. It’s amazing, isn’t it?)
It seems that these two men were acquainted to each other, although I don’t know whether they had met each other or not, since when Engels was in Manchester in his youth “he frequented some members of the English labour & Chartist movements and wrote for several different journals, including The Northern Star, Robert Owen’s New Moral World & the Democratic Review newspaper”, according to Wikipedia.
I know you are terribly busy and suffering from the outrageous and crazy heat of late summer in Japan, but I would like you to read the following written by Engels. (If you have read it before, of course, it is not necessary to read it again.) You can get this segment (II. The Family 4. The Monogamous Family) from the website.
Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State
II. The Family
4. The Monogamous Family
It might be hard to understand it at first, especially the very beginning of it, but please be patient, and keep reading it.
It is a very important theory for Marxist feminism (which argues about the condition of housewives), and you will understand easily why it is so important for this mode of feminism. (Of course, it is just a simple, although still fairly salient, hypothesis, and therefore you can refute it.) (Anyway, it is very important to present a hypothesis, otherwise we cannot have antitheses or syntheses, can we?)
But before your reading it, I just want to give you a summary of his philosophy that I got from Wikipedia.
Family and property
Engels' ideas on the role of property in the creation of the modern family and as such modern civilization begin to become more transparent in the latter part of Chapter 2 as he begins to elaborate on the question of the monogamous relationship and the freedom to enter into (or refuse) such a relationship. Bourgeois law dictates the rules for relationships and inheritances. As such, two partners, even when their marriage is not arranged, will always have the preservation of inheritance in mind and as such will never be entirely free to choose their partner. For Engels, a relationship based on property rights and forced monogamy will only lead to the proliferation of immorality and prostitution.
The only class, according to Engels, which is free from these restraints of property, and as a result from the danger of moral decay, is the proletariat, as they lack the monetary means that are the basis of (as well as threat to) the bourgeois marriage. Without property to consider, the proletariat (male and female) is free to enter as well as dissolve any marriage whenever they wish to. Monogamy is therefore guaranteed by the fact that theirs is a voluntary sex-love relationship.
The social revolution which Engels believed was about to happen would eliminate class differences, and therefore also the need for prostitution and the enslavement of women. If men needed only to be concerned with sex-love and no longer with property and inheritance, then monogamy would come naturally.
But I would like to emphasize that one of the most significant thoughts in this writing of his is the idea of patriarchy, which may not be explicated in this section. Just bear in mind that he explains “patriarchy” which gave an enormous impact to radical feminists, perhaps, in the 1960s, and thus there is some strong connection between Marxist and radical feminist theories.
The arguments by MW (women’s education) and Harriet Taylor (women’s profession) are categorized into liberal feminism.
If you have any question, please let me know.
Thank you for your interest in feminist theory.
Hello, Cherry and my friends.
I feel just a little cool tonight after shower of rain. The sound of tsuku-tsuku-boushi makes me aware of a waning summer.
Cherry, I’ve just uploaded the file of ‘Castration’ on the Document on NWSG site. I hope you can find it easily.
That’s all for tonight. Good-night.
Hi, everyone.
Our house's hot-water-supply equipment malfunctions. It has worked for more than 24 years. Today, I asked service division to repair it. When I called there, its operator could not find the number of the machine. It was not listed. The service man said parts were not produced 15 years ago. Many parts are corroded. If you try to mend one part, other parts will crumble. carbonmono oxide yields. I thought ''What a good machine it is! What a long life. Made in Japan. Thank you''
Tomorrow, my mother, nephew and my daughter will visit us. We will go to some places to enjoy reunion.
I will see you a couple days later.
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