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...possibly, the unspoken policy is deeply feminist. Could it be that corporate America is using recruiting dress codes as a way of protesting the horrible repression of societies where women cannot bare their well-toned legs even if they want to? Have JP Morgan and N.O.W. topped Dubya and General Pervez Musharraf as the world’s strangest bedfellows...
...strategy in line with the rich and long tradition of principled, non-violent protest actions that have forced the powerful to listen to the dispossessed. The great successes of the civil rights and feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s have prompted even conservatives to acknowledge that these social protests have helped to move the nation closer to its founding promises of freedom and equality. These movements were not an affront to democracy; they were an embodiment of it. On the local level, last spring’s sit-in played an equally important role in bringing more voices into...
Ironically, though, Rubins’ opposition is almost all rhetorical: logically, she is a feminist. One of the most radical ideas of 1970’s feminism, which is still at the core of almost all feminism today, was that women’s position in society is socially, not biologically, determined. This was, and still is, a fundamental tenet of almost anything that calls itself feminism...
...still far from reactionary. And without it, without the assumption that women and men would be equal if only the “feminists” would leave us alone, her argument can’t exist. So in fact, what Rubins is unwittingly doing is throwing feminist analysis back at the feminists...
Instead of claiming (as most feminists do) that “the patriarchy” or the IMF or whatever oppressed women, Rubins is claiming that feminists oppress women. But her fundamental question—Who is oppressing women?—is a feminist one, and her analysis is as well. I think she should at least acknowledge her debt, if nothing else...