Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 14:40:36 -0500
Subject: Re: Women's oppression, Adam and Engels ?


Lisa:

>But I'd still like you to explain _how_ class society created women's
>oppression or patriarchy [which is not quite the same thing,
>perhaps].  If you're going to rely on Engels, I want you to start
>defending him.  Perhaps you could start with a brief explication of
>some aspect of Engels' argument.  What was the first form of private
>property of means of production?  How do we know that?  Why did men
>own/control it, not women?  How do we know that they did so?

Actually, this is not even Engels's position. He said that the first
division of labor was the division by gender, implying if anything that
patriarchy helped create class society. It would be difficult at best to
make any fruitful speculations about this, especially as there is no clear
reason it had to happen the same way in every case.

Rahul




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