t would be possible for the system to increase total surplus value if most (if not all) housework and child care were carried out by capitalistically organised paid labour, ‘freeing’ all women to produce value and surplus value for capital.

Adolescents with a host of other psychosocial problems are also more likely to date older romanticpartners, and dating an older partner has been associated with increased substance use and delinquency

: the love shared in mutuality by mother andinfant can be the model for sexual love between adults

The physically unequal mother in all cultures typically breast-feeds andprotects, rather than bullies or browbeats, the vulnerable infant and child. The powerfulmother nurtures so as to give life and create growth in the weak. She does not impose so asto inscribe her will

Girls and women saw the world as made up not of separated, self-seeking individuals, butof interrelationships, connections webbing everyone together in communities of concern;they made moral decisions not through abstract reasoning from rules but by balancingthe infinitesimal and acute needs of everybody concerned (25-63)

. Dans cette optique, Julia Kristeva soutient que la saturation d'images dans le monde contemporain a atrophié la formation de nos fantasmes individuels. Plutôt que de cultiver des fantasmes uniques, nous devons désormais choisir parmi un nombre restreint de fantasmes préétablis par les médias. Ironiquement, la prolifération des images appauvrit le fantasme.

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Though the industries were small and depended on a local market within a circumscribed area of communication, they grew rapidly. The period following the Revolution is marked by considerable industrial restiveness and by the formation of many labor organizations, which were, however, benevolent or friendly societies rather than unions and were often incorporated by an act of the legislature.

Another early instance of a strike occurred in New York City in 1809, when the cordwainers struck for higher wages and were hauled before the mayor’s court on the charge of conspiracy. The trial was postponed by Mayor DeWitt Clinton until after the pending municipal elections to avoid the risk of offending either side.

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We meet this new form of the family in all its severity among the Greeks. While the position of the goddesses in their mythology, as Marx points out, brings before us an earlier period when the position of women was freer and more respected, in the heroic age we find the woman already being humiliated by the domination of the man and by competition from girl slaves. Note how Telemachus in the Odyssey silences his mother. [The reference is to a passage where Telemachus, son of Odysseus and Penelope, tells his mother to get on with her weaving and leave the men to mind their own business – Ed.