And now at last, and with some trepidation, on to my final take on Marilyn Waring’s Counting For Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth. I have already discussed this Introduction to the Second Edition, and the First Half of this book in other posts. Suffice it to …
Alright, so as you may notice i have not posted for a couple of days – partly out of mid-week fatigue and partly because i am finding it difficult to figure out exactly what to say about Marilyn Waring’s book Counting For Nothing, which i am now half-way through. …
Now I must say, it is a joy to be well rested – this morning I gave into temptation and stole a couple of extra hours sleep, and what a difference that makes! I have just re-read my first blog entries, in part inspired by the nice ego stroke from …
Alright, having finished The Boundaries of Eros by Guido Ruggiero, I have a few things to say about sex in Renaissance Venice, about books that I read, and about this blog. First off, a few observations about The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice. The final …
OK, I managed to read another chapter of Guido Ruggiero’s The Boundaries of Eros this morning, on sodomy in Renaissance Venice (14th-15th centuries). Once again: I am reading this and other books to try and form an opinion of Silvia Federici’s claim (in Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body …
Dark Victory The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty by Walden Bello, with Shea Cunningham and Bill Rau 148 pp. Illustrated. 1994. Oakland: Food First. $12.95. (pb). You’ve probably been taught about systems of debt-peonage that prevailed in more sinister eras or lands. The share cropper or laborer was …
The following interview with bell hookd about Butch Lee and Red Rover’s Night-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain, first appeared in the Winter 1996 issue of the feminist magazine On The Issues. Tough Talks for Tough Time “The transformation to a neo-colonial world has only begun, but it …