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Gender
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.42
EAN: 9780930588403
Edition: 2nd/Revisd
ISBN: 0930588401
Label: Heyday Books
Manufacturer: Heyday Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 1990-03
Publisher: Heyday Books
Studio: Heyday Books
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Rating:  - Why Should Illich have to bow to feminism
The reviewer who criticized Illich for not making his views compatible with feminism either has an agenda or misses his point. Yes Illich has a deep suspicion of modernity--and feminism is the defining discourse of modernity )or post modernity or whatever). Illich rejects a society in which everyone is a player--a geographic isolate in favor of something John Crowe Ransom and the Agrarians would have admired. Read the Odyssey for example: it is among other things a rule book of civility and societal ... Read More
Rating:  - A Muddle
Illich is faced with a problem. He deplores modern civilization as dehumanizing but recognizes only subsstence existence as an alternative. Unfortunately subsistence existence and other historically based cultures prensent strongly based sex roles. This flies in the face of feminism which denies the value of culurally defined sex roles and thus denies the values of Illich's ideal culture. Since feminism is a powerful political force, Illich must find a way to make his views compatible with it.
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