I marvel that we saw so clearly that there could not be a revolution without women’s liberation, that male power had to be systematically unpicked, that a major source of fascism was authoritarian family life led by would-be patriarchs, that personal life was as important a field of struggle as the factory, that children had rights, that the nuclear family was not the best forum for their growth, and that we had to infuse politics with music and pleasure and art.
Feminists have never separated the economic and the emotional. They made us recognise that cleaning house and looking after children was emotional and physical work that we had to share.
(Did these groups / politcs just fizzle out because turkeys dont vote for christmas, or because in the end men just see the problem as being women's and that women just need to work out (even if that means the double shift of paid and unpaid work) how to fit into the existing partirarchal structures?
www.opendemocracy.net/en/transformation/sensuous-materialism-emotion-and-left/