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INTRODUCTION
2. ROMANTIC LOVE
3. HETERONORMATIVITY
4. GENDER QUESTION
4.GENDER QUESTION: THE THIRD GENDER
It was clear, the book is a critique (in literary form) of Romantic Love, capitalim and
heteronormativity. Nonetheless, I could not but wonder why did she chose not to develop the story
from a women point if view. It worried me that a socialist femminist did not vindicate a women
identity as a political subject. Then, the text "Crtica feminista lesbiana" by Maria Rod came to my
hands, and I understood everything. Of course I did hear before about Monique Wittig (and more
than once) and in fact I did have it in my hands her book Las lesbianas no somos mujeres, but I
never got the chance to read it.
El pensament heterosexual, "en tant que produeix la diferncia dels sexes com a dogma
filosfic i poltic, afirma que `constituye ontollogicamente las mujeres en otros/diferentes.
Aix, resol que `la - mujer no tiene sentido ms que en los sistemas heterosexuales de
pensamiento y en los sistemas econmicos heterosexuales" (Rod 2014: 2)
"Aix, considera que les lesbianes `no sn dones, ja que aquestes noms tenen sentit en un
sistema de pensament heterosexual" (Rod 2014:2)
" Una `lesbiana no s una dona, ja que el concepte `donanoms t sentit en la relaci amb
l'`home. Una lesbiana esdevindria un `tercer gnereque desestabilitzaria la dicotomia
home/dona sobre la qual s'ha construt el feminisme" (Rod 2014:4)
El desenvolupament de leconomia dinerria capitalista genera una mena de separaci, una mena
de bifurcaci de la vida econmica tot i que aquesta mai no est separada realment dall social
entre la producci orientada al mercat (la producci de bns), considerada com a treball vell i
que es converteix en treball remunerat en el capitalisme, i la reproducci de la fora de treball, que
deixa de ser vista com a treball i passa a identificar-se com a treball femen: es feminitza. Des dels
inicis del capitalisme sobserva la creaci duna divisi sexual del treball, que separa producci i
reproducci en funci dels subjectes que desenvolupen aquest treball, produint tamb diferents tipus
de relaci. (Federici, 2014)
This women's funcion in capitalism as a tool to produce and reproduce labour force is exposed. She
foregroumds how this work is invisivilised and femininised:
- pg 33
- pg 54
Maybe if in the book the reader saw her in this situations she/he would immediately idenify the
narrator as a he or a she -> Winterson consciously avoids it.