We Are Not Born Submissive by Manon Garcia

Author:Manon Garcia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-01-06T00:00:00+00:00

LIVING WITH THE OPPRESSOR

First, women are not a minority or a marginalized group and, as we have seen, their subordination does not result from a single event or period of history; it has no beginning.13 Second, unlike Blacks, Jews, or proletarians, they do not live with each other, they live with their oppressors:

They live dispersed among men, tied by homes, work, economic interests, and social conditions to certain men—father or husband—more closely than to other women. As bourgeois women, they are in solidarity with bourgeois men and not with proletarian women; as white women, they are in solidarity with white men and not with black women.14 … A woman could not even dream of exterminating males. The tie that binds her to her oppressors is unlike any other. The division of the sexes is a biological given, not a moment in human history. Their opposition took shape within an original Mitsein, and it has not broken it. The couple is a fundamental unit with the two halves riveted to each other: no cleavage of society by sex is possible. This is the fundamental characteristic of woman: she is the Other at the heart of a whole whose two components are necessary to each other.15

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