askchapo

the conditions of their lives and their social inputs, both produced by capitalist forces, leads them to ideologically pursue particular notions of gender and sex that are contingent upon enacting violence, objectification, and ownership on women in general and white women in particular. the particular objectification of european women under capitalism has been explored by silvia federici in her seminal text Caliban and the Witch. the general objectification of women globally and panhistorically is a prominent feature of david graeber's Debt. in particular, there's a common thread of violent social relations and a notion of ownership that is pervasive in especially traditional and historic western notions of family and the law. the point though is simple: assert social control through violence, the flavor of which is a negotiation with history.