Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Reviews
- Essays
- Letters
- Sinister Wisdom, 11, fall 1970
- Village Voice, October 1972
- Signs, winter 1977
- Signs, II:4, 1977
- Frontiers, IV:2, 1979
- Chrysalis, No. 9, fall 1979
- “Feminist Review,” The New Women's Times, February 29–March 13 1980
- Gay Community Center Newsletter, July 1980
- Women and SF: Three Letters
- Written to Venom, November 27 1981
- Sojourner, 10:8, June 1985
- The Women's Review of Books, II:9, June 1995
- The Women's Review of Books, III:6, March 1986
- The Seattle Source, April 11 1986
- The Women's Review of Books, III:12, September 1986
- The Women's Review of Books, IV:10–11, July/August 1987
- Lesbian Ethics, 2:3, summer 1987
- Gay Community News, January 22–28 1989
- The Women's Review of Books, VI:7, April 1989
- SFRA Newsletter, No. 172, November 1989
- Extrapolation, 31:1, spring 1990
- Publication of the Modern Language Association, March 1992
- Sojourner: The Women's Forum, September 1993
- The Lesbian Review of Books, I:3, 1995
- Index of Books and Authors Reviewed
The Women's Review of Books, III:6, March 1986
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Reviews
- Essays
- Letters
- Sinister Wisdom, 11, fall 1970
- Village Voice, October 1972
- Signs, winter 1977
- Signs, II:4, 1977
- Frontiers, IV:2, 1979
- Chrysalis, No. 9, fall 1979
- “Feminist Review,” The New Women's Times, February 29–March 13 1980
- Gay Community Center Newsletter, July 1980
- Women and SF: Three Letters
- Written to Venom, November 27 1981
- Sojourner, 10:8, June 1985
- The Women's Review of Books, II:9, June 1995
- The Women's Review of Books, III:6, March 1986
- The Seattle Source, April 11 1986
- The Women's Review of Books, III:12, September 1986
- The Women's Review of Books, IV:10–11, July/August 1987
- Lesbian Ethics, 2:3, summer 1987
- Gay Community News, January 22–28 1989
- The Women's Review of Books, VI:7, April 1989
- SFRA Newsletter, No. 172, November 1989
- Extrapolation, 31:1, spring 1990
- Publication of the Modern Language Association, March 1992
- Sojourner: The Women's Forum, September 1993
- The Lesbian Review of Books, I:3, 1995
- Index of Books and Authors Reviewed
Summary
Author's Note
The mystification of money and power issues in the United States (and elsewhere, of course) seems to me often to take the form of complicated, even hair-splitting analyses of abstractions like “justice,” “fairness,” and so on, which are discussed as if they were extremely difficult to define and so abstruse that the discussion is elevated into a Heaven of ideas where such ordinary things as human beings and concrete events in their lives don't exist. As I recall it, Gender Justice was a Right-wing attempt to confuse all of us by insisting that the most minimally nominal “freedom” was identical with real freedom. Nope.
Dear Editors
The concept of “liberty” over which Rosemary Tong spends so much time in her review of Gender Justice (January 1986) is a fake; it doesn't exist today except for a very small minority of the rich and powerful (virtually all of whom are white men) and it never did.
The liberty of the free market, which is what the book's authors are talking about (it's enjoying an ideological revival today, for obvious political and economic reasons), never applied to the peasants who endured appalling conditions in the factories of the early Industrial Revolution because they'd been kicked off their land. Nor does it apply today to giant corporations, multinational banking, massive advertising, and a situation in which, of the largest 100 economic powers in the world, 57 are countries and 43 are multinational companies. (One-third of world trade now consists of each multinational company trading with itself.)
We live today in a world in which oligopolies (a few giant corporations which control the majority of the market) raise prices in good times and bad, prefer large per-item profits on a low volume of sales to smaller unit profits on many more sales, and shift the social costs of pollution, ecological disaster, poverty, unemployment, aging and disability to everyone else – anyone else – in the name of “liberty.” This isn't liberty.
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- The Country You Have Never SeenEssays and Reviews, pp. 277 - 278Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2007