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Are women the only Stepford Wives? | 4 comments
[new] 'feminism is dead' rants... (Avg. Score: 3.00 / Raters: 2) (#2)
by jgraham on Fri Jun 20th, 2003 at 08:19:02 AM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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ya, it's easy to get sucked into the "is feminism dead?" debate... to quote yet another alternet story:

Faludi also sees the culture of corporate capitalism as having devastating consequences for feminism. In her recent book, "Stiffed," she describes how the predominant values of fame, celebrity and wealth, as transmitted through the media, have created a de-politicized, "ornamental culture." "Where we once lived in a society in which men in particular participated by being useful in public life," she argues in her book, "we are now surrounded by a culture that encourages people to play almost no functional roles, only decorative or consumer ones." Faludi believes that men are now fighting the same commercial forces that women have long fought - and that their sense of disempowerment, or "feminization," is turning them against the feminist goals of equality in the home and the workplace. Without the camaraderie of men, Faludi believes, the society that women envisioned in the 1970s will never come about.

Ok, i was with her up through the part where people only play decorative and consumer roles - and that's where i think the whole Stepfordization of culture in the US comes into play. (The article loses me when Faludi gets going with male disempowerment turning them against feminine empowerment and thus thwarting women's feminist efforts. Perhaps if I read the book that wouldn't sound as Martian to me as it currently does.)

Ok, then do we see a direct proportional relationship between the degree of capitalist/materialist influence in a culture and female domesticity? Or - gender neutral domesticity? (If we're all in fact decorations in capitalist society... )



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