Reproducing The World by Mary O'Brien

Author:Mary O'Brien [O'Brien, Mary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Gender Studies
ISBN: 9781000309744
Google: cgeiDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-11T03:48:16+00:00

Notes

1 The modern defense of the separation of public and private is, of course, that of Hannah Arendt in The Human Condition (New York: Doubleday, 1959). For a critique see Mary O'Brien, The Politics of Reproduction (Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981), pp. 116-139, See also Jill Vickers, "Memoirs of an Ontological Exile: The Methodological Rebellions of Feminist Research," in Angela Miles and Geraldine Finn, eds., Feminism in Canada: From Pressure to Politics (Montreal: Black Rose, 1982), pp. 22-46. For an attempt to reintegrate public and private within the parameters of particular modes of production, see Wally Seccombe, "The Reproduction of Labor Power: A Comparative Study" unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1981.

2 O'Brien, The Politics of Reproduction, Chapter 1.

3 Hegel saw the need for this strategy very early in his pursuit of absolute knowledge. It is integral to his philosophy of nature, but appears in an early fragment "On Love," in Early Theological Writings, T. M. Knox, trans. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971).

4 Juvenal, City of God, XVI; "Sixth Satire, The Legend of Bad Women" in The Satires of Juvenal (Ann Arbor, 1965) and commentary in Dolvnii Luvanalis Satvrae XIV (Cambridge, 1955).

5 Which, of course, commends him to Arendt. See Arendt, The Human Condition, p. 33.

6 The promulgation of the Second Law of Nature is to be found in Tetrachordon. Milton's "divorce" pamphlets are to be found in The Complete Prose Works of John Milton, vol. 2, with introduction by Ernest Sirluck, ed. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953). They are abbreviated here thus: CPW: editorial and introductory materials; D & D: "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce"; M.B.: "The Judgment of Martin Bucer Concerning Divorce"; Tet.: "Tetrachordon";

Col: "Colasterian." The pamphlets were published 1643-1645. P.L.: Paradise Lost and Selected Poetry and Prose, Northrop Frye, ed., (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967).

7 As Milton remarked: "it can be but a sorry and ignoble society of life whose inseparable injunction depends on flesh and bones" (D & D, p. 309). Substituting holy seed for biological determinism, however, is hardly an adequate solution.

8 Ernest Sirluck, Complete Prose Works, p. 25. My italics.

9 William Barker, "Observations upon Some of his Majesties late Answers and Expresses," in William Haller, ed. Tracts on Liberty in the Puritan Revolution, vol. 2, p. 3 (New York: Columbia Press, 1934). Michael Waltzer, in The Revolution of the Saints (New York: Atheneum, 1969), pp. 30-34, discusses the "second nature" created by the Fall in the context of Calvin's belief that first nature was so nearly dead that it had little political significance. In fact, Puritan versions of pre-Prelapsarian nature are already "second nature theories" for they generally posit an "instinct" for religion. Milton is not alone in believing marriage to be of pre-Prelapsarian nature. Christopher Marlowe also lends weight to the notion of marriage as both natural and historical: "in violating marriage sacred law You break an honor greater than yourself: To be a King is of a younger house Than to be married;

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