Absolutely! But then again, I am over here on Dreamwidth, so obviously I support the communists.
In seriousness, do we need to overthrow capitalism? Probably not, and it's sort of a moot point since we're certainly not going to. But capitalism thrives on oppression, so efforts to combat oppression generally entail anti-capitalist policies. IMO, it wouldn't kill the US to become a little more socialist (universal health care, for instance), but any politician who says that out loud would get flattened by the Tea Party.
But that's rather beyond the scope of the book. And I'm not saying that Feldt necessarily should've addressed big-picture issues like "should we overthrow capitalism?" I do think, however, that a book on empowering women should recognize that the reason more women don't "step up" isn't simply lack of initiative, but that government and corporate policies on health care, child care, family leave, poverty, discrimination, etc. are a legitimate barrier.
tl;dr - This is very much a "middle class white feminist" book.
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Date: Aug. 8th, 2011 12:28 am (UTC)Absolutely!
But then again, I am over here on Dreamwidth, so obviously I support the communists.In seriousness, do we need to overthrow capitalism? Probably not, and it's sort of a moot point since we're certainly not going to. But capitalism thrives on oppression, so efforts to combat oppression generally entail anti-capitalist policies. IMO, it wouldn't kill the US to become a little more socialist (universal health care, for instance), but any politician who says that out loud would get flattened by the Tea Party.
But that's rather beyond the scope of the book. And I'm not saying that Feldt necessarily should've addressed big-picture issues like "should we overthrow capitalism?" I do think, however, that a book on empowering women should recognize that the reason more women don't "step up" isn't simply lack of initiative, but that government and corporate policies on health care, child care, family leave, poverty, discrimination, etc. are a legitimate barrier.
tl;dr - This is very much a "middle class white feminist" book.