No Woman, No
Revolution, Part 7
Gender
Men and women are biologically different, but socially
equal.
Any differences that are attributed to men or to women that
are not biological are called “Gender”.
Discrimination between people on grounds of gender is wrong.
Opposition to gender-discrimination is not the entirety of
women’s concerns. Opposition to gender-discrimination is a “human rights”
matter that may be dealt with by law.
Women’s concerns as women go beyond opposition to
gender-discrimination. Women should organise as women so as to become a
free-willing collective subject that can act positively, and so do more than merely
restore prescribed human rights.
Women organised democratically as women, and especially as
working women, can be a revolutionary force. It is this revolutionary force of
women that the communists need to bring into being.
The establishment of “gender desks” is not sufficient for
revolutionary purposes. “Gender desks” can partially, but not completely,
restore equal (bourgeois) rights to bourgeois women, but will not succeed in
the task of mobilising proletarian women for the overthrow of capitalism, which
is the only full emancipation available to them.
- The above is to introduce the original reading-text: What do we mean by 'Gender', Tweedie, 2012.
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